C. S. Lewis

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.