Quotes from CS Lewis

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.

Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.