I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -C. S. Lewis Saintpatricksday
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. -C. S. Lewis Faith
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. -C. S. Lewis Power
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -C. S. Lewis Art
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. -C. S. Lewis Time
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' -C. S. Lewis God
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. -C. S. Lewis History
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. -C. S. Lewis Future
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. -C. S. Lewis Good
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. -C. S. Lewis Change
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. -C. S. Lewis Time
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. -C. S. Lewis Men
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -C. S. Lewis Art
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. -C. S. Lewis Education
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. -C. S. Lewis Women
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -C. S. Lewis God
