Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

— C. S. Lewis

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges that it should be resistant should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

— C. S. Lewis

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

— C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

— C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.

— C. S. Lewis

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

— C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

— C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

— C. S. Lewis

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis