C.S. Lewis

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

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

"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."

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

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

"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."

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

"You can make anything by writing."

"We are what we believe we are!"

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

"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."

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