C. S. Lewis

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

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.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

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

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

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.