Quotes from CS Lewis

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

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.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

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