C. S. LEWIS

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

"If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world."

"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Things never happen the same way twice."

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."

"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."