“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.”
— C. S. Lewis
“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
“Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
“Selfishness has never been admired.”
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”
“Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.”
“God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn’t have to take us in the line. You’re as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He’d ever created.”
“Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.”
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.”
“I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”
“Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.”
“As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.”
“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
“We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.”
“The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.”
“The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.”
“We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, “liked to see young people enjoying themselves” and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, “a good time was had by all.””
“Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”
“Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us – an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof ‘God did it’ and ‘I did it’ are both true descriptions.”
“It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”
“We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.”
“I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.”
“A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.”
“Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.”
“In worship, God imparts himself to us.”
“The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
“Agnostics talk cheerfully of man’s search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for the cat.”
“You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”
“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
“People talk as if grief were just a feeling – as if it weren’t the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.”
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
“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. I still do not know where else I could have found one.”
“If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now.”
“Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.”
“Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.”
“Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.”
“The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”
“Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”
“Christianity is a fighting religion.”
“Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.”
“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.”
“The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.”
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