C.S. Lewis

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."

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

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"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?"

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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