C.S. Lewis

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

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

"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)"

"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."

"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."

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

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

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

"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."

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

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"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."

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"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."

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

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

"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."