C.S. Lewis

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

- C.S. Lewis

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"

- C.S. Lewis

"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Las dificultades preparan a personas comunes para destinos extraordinarios."

- C.S. Lewis

""There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.""

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”"

- C.S. Lewis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream"

- 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

"Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Creativity takes courage"

- C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"We read to know we are not alone."

- C.S. Lewis

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy."

- C.S. Lewis

"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."

- C.S. Lewis

"I believe in Christ, like I believe in the sun — not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else."

- C.S. Lewis

"Martyrdom always remains the supreme enacting and perfection of Christianity. This great action has been initiated for us, done on our behalf, exemplified for our imitation, and inconceivably communicated to all believers, by Christ on Calvary."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

- C.S. Lewis

"“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”"

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

- C.S. Lewis

"There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- 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."

- C.S. Lewis

"Set new goals, regardless of age."

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny..."

- C.S. Lewis

""Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'""

- C.S. Lewis

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

- C.S. Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."

- C.S. Lewis

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

- C.S. Lewis

""Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.""

- C.S. Lewis

""You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.""

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

- C.S. Lewis

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than anything we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You need not to know much about Heaven – it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us."

- C.S. Lewis

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

- 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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

"There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

""We read to know we are not alone.""

- C.S. Lewis

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no-one is watching."

- C.S. Lewis

"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had."

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"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own."

- C.S. Lewis

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

- C.S. Lewis

"You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

- C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only — and that is to support the ultimate career."

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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set new goals or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You can make anything by writing."

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"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."

- C.S. Lewis

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me."

- C.S. Lewis

"We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us."

- C.S. Lewis

"A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep."

- C.S. Lewis

"We have long since agreed that if our prayers are granted at all they are granted from the foundation of the world. God and His acts are not in time. Intercourse between God and man occurs at particular moments for the man, but not for God."

- C.S. Lewis

"Almost certainly God is not in Time. His life does not consist of moments following one another. If a million people are praying to Him at ten-thirty tonight, He need not listen to them all in that one little snippet which we call ten-thirty. Ten-thirty --and every other moment from the beginning of the world-- is always the Present for Him. If you like to put it that way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashed in flames."

- C.S. Lewis

"Forgive us …. As we forgive…. To forgive for the moment is not difficult. But to go on forgiving, to forgive the same offence again every time it recurs to the memory---there’s the real tussle."

- C.S. Lewis

"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."

- C.S. Lewis

"An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom."

- C.S. Lewis

"“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .""

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

- C.S. Lewis

"Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing — rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."

- C.S. Lewis

"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves."

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"The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so."

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"The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the 'gospel' or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the 'gospels', the narratives of Our Lord's life and death, were composed later for the benefit of those who had already accepted the gospel. They were in no sense the basis of Christianity: they were written for those already converted. The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it. Nothing could be more unhistorical than to pick out selected sayings of Christ from the gospels and to regard those as the datum and the rest of the New Testament as a construction upon it. The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. If they had died without making anyone else believe this 'gospel' no gospels would ever have been written."

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"Joy is the serious business of heaven."

- C.S. Lewis

"Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at the moment when one says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...""

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!""

- C.S. Lewis

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind"

- C.S. Lewis

"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."

- C.S. Lewis

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

- 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

"You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to."

- C.S. Lewis

"When we lose one blessing, another is most often unexpectedly given in its place."

- C.S. Lewis

""There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.""

- C.S. Lewis

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- C.S. Lewis

"never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"The man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride."

- C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only 3 and that is to support the ultimate career."

- C.S. Lewis

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. Lewis

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse."

- C.S. Lewis

""We have nothing if not belief.""

- 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

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

- C.S. Lewis

""Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny.""

- C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

- C.S. Lewis

"I am in love and out of it I will not go."

- C.S. Lewis

"Children are not a distraction from more important work, they are the most important work."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Good morning! You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

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"We are what we believe we are."

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"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

- C.S. Lewis

"Courage, dear heart"

- C.S. Lewis

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

- C.S. Lewis

"Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not."

- C.S. Lewis

"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."

- C.S. Lewis

"The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we’re so anxious not to see."

- C.S. Lewis

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. Lewis

""Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.""

- C.S. Lewis

"There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear."

- C.S. Lewis