Quotes from C. S. Lewis

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

Freedom always comes with a price.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.