C.S. Lewis

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

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

"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."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."