C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

They Open A Door And Enter A World

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.