More quotes by C.S. Lewis

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"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 never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery."
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."