C.S. Lewis

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

"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."

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

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

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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

"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely"

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience."

"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."

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

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

"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."

"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..."

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