C.S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

A children's story that only children can enjoy is not a good children's story in the slightest.

The world does not need more Christians, it needs more Christ-like people.

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 aches' than to say 'My heart is broken.'

We are told that God is love. But when we think of love, we think of something soft and gentle. God's love is a consuming fire.

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

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Even in the best of marriages, there are two people, and two people are not one.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the right thing; we are wondering whether He will do anything at all.

The only safe rule is to be sure that you are leading a life that would be worth living even if there were no heaven.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

If you want to be a man, you must be a man. If you want to be a woman, you must be a woman. You can't be both.

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

The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could not learn in any other way.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'