"The books or music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them: it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of the worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news form a country we have never yet visited."

—C.S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

~ C. S. Lewis

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." 

— C.S. Lewis

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

~ C.S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not because I see it,  but because by it,  I see everything else."

~ C.S. Lewis

"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

“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”

~ C.S. Lewis

When all is said, and truly said, concerning the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by the grace of God, an enormous common ground.

~ C.S. Lewis

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

~ C.S. Lewis