C.S. Lewis

"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)"

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

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

"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."

"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..."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"We are what we believe we are!"