I have been writing a paper on C.S. Lewis and I found so my Quotes from him I just want to share them.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
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
We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis
God is not hurried along in the time-stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.
C. S. Lewis
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself…I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity …All your patient sees is the half-finished, sham gothic erection on their new building estate. Provided that any of those neighbors sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd cloths, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From Lewis's Screwtape Letters
It does not matter how small the sins are, provided their cumulative effect is to edge the man away form the Light and out into Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
From Lewis's Screwtape Letters
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man
C. S. Lewis
Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded
by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.Alexandre Dumas
"I believe the only way to get through this life is laughing,
Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien quotes
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directy in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
Philip Pullman
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any courser like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson
Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all.
Danielle: A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they
