C.S. Lewis

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

"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."

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

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

"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

"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."

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

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

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"We are what we believe we are!"

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

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk."

"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)"

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."