C. S. Lewis

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Why must holy places be dark places?

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.