Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing it also depends on what kind of a person you are

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

At the end of things, The Blessed will say, We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven. And the lost will say, We were always in Hell. And both will speak truly.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, but those who keep silence hurt more.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.

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

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

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

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

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