Quotes from C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.