“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death.”

—C S Lewis. 

“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”

C S Lewis, The Great Divorce. 

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”

—C S Lewis. 

“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”

—C S Lewis. 

“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.”

—C S Lewis. 

“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions – – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious as he was before –- then I think we must suspect that his ‘conversion’ was largely imaginary.”

—C S Lewis.