The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.