Quotes from CS Lewis

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one".

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.