C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told: ''Blessed are they that morn.''

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!