C. S. Lewis

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.