“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.”
—C S Lewis.
“We live in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
—C S Lewis.
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.”
—C S Lewis.
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
—C S Lewis.
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on – including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.”
—C S Lewis.
“God’s love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has.”
C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…
It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit…
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
—C. S. Lewis,The Weight of Glory.
