In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance… — 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 Image
“Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is".” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket… — 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 yard, or old ships to the breakers, so words in their last decay go to swell the enormous list of synonyms for good and bad. And as long as most people are more anxious to express… — 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 Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in… — 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 hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God: Judas and Satan as tools… — 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 Image
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 Image
“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
