“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.”

“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.”

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.”

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”

“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

“Courage, dear heart.”

“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S Lewis

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird 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.”

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

“There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice.”

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.” – C.S. Lewis