C.S. Lewis — "I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would d…"

"When I was a child I was too old for my age and now I am an old man I am too young for my age."

"We are told that God is love. But when we think of love, we think of something soft and gentle. God's love is a consuming fire."

"We read to know we're not alone."

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's re…"

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable."