C. S. Lewis
10 quotations
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.