Quotes from C. S. Lewis

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

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

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.

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.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

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

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

It is not enough to want to get rid of one's sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.