C. S. Lewis

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.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

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

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

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

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.'

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.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.