C.S. Lewis

"We are what we believe we are!"

"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."

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

"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."

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

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

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

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

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

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."