“ Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
“ 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. C. S. Lewis
“ 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.' C. S. Lewis
“ God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
“ Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratifie… C. S. Lewis
“ There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis
“ 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. C. S. Lewis
“ This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
“ 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. C. S. Lewis
“ The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis
“ Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debat… C. S. Lewis
“ Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis
“ A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis