C.S. Lewis — "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become."

"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 imag…"

"I am not a theologian, not even a professional philosopher. I am a literary man, who from a certain point in his life has found himself extremely interested in theology and philosophy."

"The door of the universe is locked from the inside."

"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 long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."