C.S. Lewis

"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”"

"“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”"

"“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”"

"“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”"

"“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.”"

"“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”"

"“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”"

"“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”"

"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking."This is a prayer of contentment"

"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine."

"Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross."

"“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”"

"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

"The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream."

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. "I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now."Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed. But come. We have no time to lose."