C.S. Lewis

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.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

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

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

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

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

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

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

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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.