“Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God.”

—C S Lewis.

“To preach Christianity meant (to the Apostles) primarily to preach the Resurrection…The Resurrection is the central theme in every Christian sermon reported in the Acts. The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the gospel or good news which the Christians brought.”

—C S Lewis.

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”

—C S Lewis.

“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”

—C S Lewis.

“Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is…We never find out the strength of the impulse inside until we try to fight it.”

—C S Lewis.

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

—C S Lewis.

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.”

—C S Lewis.