Quotes from CS Lewis
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
- CS Lewis
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
- CS Lewis
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
- CS Lewis
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
- CS Lewis
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
- CS Lewis
Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
- CS Lewis
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- CS Lewis
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
- CS Lewis
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
- CS Lewis
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
- CS Lewis
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
- CS Lewis
We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.
- CS Lewis