“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
Faith
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
EducationAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
Age“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
Life“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Religion“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
Education“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
Faith“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Motivational“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
Art“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.”
Change“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Fear“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
Love“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
Nature“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Happiness“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
God“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
Time“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
Truth“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
Experience“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion