Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

— C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven, and you get earth thrown in aim at earth, and you get neither.

— C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

— C. S. Lewis

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

— C. S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

— C. S. Lewis

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus, each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

— C. S. Lewis

Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

— C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— C. S. Lewis

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

— C. S. Lewis