C.S. Lewis

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The door of the universe is locked from the inside.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

To be a Christian is to be a little Christ.

We read to know we're not alone.

What we call 'nature' is a system of events. But there is another kind of system, a system of events which are not natural, but supernatural.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.

The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint... but in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.

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.'

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.