C.S. Lewis

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"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."

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

"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 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 homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

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

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

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

"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."

"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"

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