There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
C. S. LewisThere have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
C. S. LewisWe were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
C. S. LewisBut how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
C. S. Lewis