God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
C.S. Lewis
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it
C.S. Lewis
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C.S. Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
C.S. Lewis
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
C.S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
C.S. Lewis
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world
C.S. Lewis
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
C.S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C.S. Lewis
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C.S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."
C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
C.S. Lewis