C.S. Lewis

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"You can make anything by writing."

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."

"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

"You can't know, you can only believe - or not."

"The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)..."

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

"We are what we believe we are!"

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."

"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"

"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."