C. S. Lewis

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

Every joy is beyond all others.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?