And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.
C. S. LewisWe may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
C. S. LewisThe proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
C. S. LewisCatch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.
C. S. LewisA great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I donโt think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while weโre doing it, I think weโre meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birdsโ song and the frosty sunrise.
C. S. Lewis