Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Am at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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."
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
We are what we believe we are.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis
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