C.S. Lewis — "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"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."

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

"We are what we believe we are."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn."

"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…"