Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. Thats the deal.”

“This moment contains all moments.”

“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”

“You dont have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

“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”

“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are”

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?”

“When things go wrong, youll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”

“Smelling isnt everything said the Elephant. Why, said the Bulldog, if a fellow cant trust his nose, what is he to trust? Well, his brains perhaps, she replied mildly.”

“ I would like a question answered today, said Tiffany. Provided its not the one about how you get baby hedgehogs, said the man. No, said Tiffany patiently. Its about zoology. Zoology eh? Thats a big word, isnt it. No, actually it isnt, said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”

“But that would be putting the clock back, gasped the Governor. Have you no idea of progress, of development? I have seen them both in an egg, said Caspian. We call it Going Bad in Narnia.”

“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in Gods care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.”

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable:think of it as a place for correction and its not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the samebuilding. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it wasreally surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would becomepessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic”

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”