If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — CS Lewis Copy Share
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that… — CS Lewis Copy Share
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give… — CS Lewis Copy Share
“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's… — CS Lewis Copy Share
When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance… — CS Lewis Copy Share
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to… — CS Lewis Copy Share
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and… — CS Lewis Copy Share
When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to… — CS Lewis Copy Share
Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not… — CS Lewis Copy Share
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I… — CS Lewis Copy Share
