C. S. Lewis

"Love…is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself."

- C. S. Lewis

"God’s love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him."

- C. S. Lewis

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

- C. S. Lewis

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

- C. S. Lewis

"I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers."

- C. S. Lewis

"What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week."

- C. S. Lewis

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C. S. Lewis

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

- C. S. Lewis

"Do not dare not to dare."

- C. S. Lewis

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."

- C. S. Lewis

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’"

- C. S. Lewis

"We must both, I'm afraid, recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars - more and more repairs and replacements are necessary."

- C. S. Lewis

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less."

- C. S. Lewis

"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."

- C. S. Lewis

"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."

- C. S. Lewis

"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ."

- C. S. Lewis

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'"

- C. S. Lewis

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

- C. S. Lewis

"And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind."

- C. S. Lewis

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

- C. S. Lewis

"It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion."

- C. S. Lewis

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

- C. S. Lewis

"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal."

- C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

- C. S. Lewis

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- C. S. Lewis