C. S. Lewis

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Imagine yourself as a living house.