In honor of Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis (Nov 29 1898 – Nov 22 1963)
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” - “The Great Divorce”
"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” - “The Abolition of Man”
"If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated, but as it is, a cultural life will exist outside the church, whether it exists inside or not. To be ignorant and simple now - not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground - would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense, but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered." - "The Weight of Glory"
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” - “Mere Christianity”
"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. " - “Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis”
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” - “The Screwtape Letters”
"To love at all is to be vulnerable" - “The Four Loves”
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmän, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is one thing. ...What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then -- that is the real meaning. The other is only the beginning of it.". - Hyoi in "Out of the Silent Planet"
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” - “Mere Christianity”
"Don't be too easily convinced that God really wants you to do all sorts of work you needn't do. Each must do his duty "in that state of life to which God has called him." Remember that a belief in the virtues of doing for doing's sake is characteristically feminine, characteristically American, and characteristically modern: so that three veils may divide you from the correct view! There can be intemperance in work just as in drink. What feels like zeal may be only fidgets or even the flattering of one's self importance... By doing what one's station and its duties" does not demand, one can make oneself less fit for the duties it does demand and so commit some injustice. Just you give Mary a little chance as well as Martha." - "Letters to an American Lady"
"All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” - “The Last Battle”
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." - “Mere Christianity”
