Quotes from CS Lewis

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

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

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

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

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.