“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”

“God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”

“You can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.”

“A woman’s heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.” – C.S. Lewis

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”

“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”

“The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” – C.S. Lewis

“I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.”

“A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.”

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“Forgiveness does not mean excusing.” – C.S. Lewis

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

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

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

“Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.”

“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.”

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

“Being in love” first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”

“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

“Do not dare not to dare.”

“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” – C.S. Lewis

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”