But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
C. S. LewisWhen golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. LewisThose who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
C. S. LewisGod is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
C. S. LewisA cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
C. S. LewisYou asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.
C. S. Lewis