Andrew, this is for you: bunches of wonderful quotes by Clive Staples Lewis:

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious."

--The Last Battle

"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."

--Mere Christianity

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." (:-D)

--Reflections on the Psalms

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."-Puddleglum, my literary hero!

--The Silver Chair

"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction." (hmm...I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's something interesting to ponder.)

--Surprised by Joy

"Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity."

--Perelandra

"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us..."

--Letters to Malcolm

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

--Answers to Questions on Christianity

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

--Mere Christianity

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

--Letters to a friend

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

--Mere Christianity.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

 

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)