Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C S Lewis
Tea should be taken in solitude. C S Lewis
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C S Lewis
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it. C S Lewis
Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C S Lewis
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. C S Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. 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
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C S Lewis
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C S Lewis
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. C S Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C S Lewis
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. C S Lewis