THE WISDOM OF C.S. LEWIS

"Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly—are done worst when we try hardest to do them." C.S. Lewis,...

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really...

Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy...

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil ....

"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I le...

"[T]he past is the past and that is what time means, and time itself is one more name for death, and Heaven itself is a state where ...

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keepin...