“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”

“Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis

“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.”

“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try to get there at all. It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it.”

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.”

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

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

“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.”

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.”

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. 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.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

“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.”

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”

“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.”

“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” – C.S. Lewis

“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.”

“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”

“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”

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

“We do not want merely to see beauty… We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”

“All get what they want; they do not always like it.” – C.S. Lewis

“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.”

“If you’re thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you.”

“It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”

“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” – C.S. Lewis

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

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

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

“It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” – C.S. Lewis

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

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

“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.”

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”

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

“God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being he had ever created.”

“Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”

“We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis