C. S. Lewis

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

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

“We are what we believe we are.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

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

“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

“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.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“Courage, dear heart.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”