“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird 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.”

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

“Do not dare not to dare.”

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.”

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

“You can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”