C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.