C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn you will find yourself disliking him less.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.