Quotes from CS Lewis

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

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

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.