While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
C. S. LewisIt is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C. S. LewisCertain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C. S. LewisMy own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book
C. S. Lewis