Quotes from CS Lewis

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

We are what we believe we are!

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.