C. S. Lewis

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?