My owns plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.
– Reepicheep –
from CS Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.
– CS Lewis –
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and seek and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –
Pride … has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
– CS Lewis –
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
– CS Lewis –
Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self…
– CS Lewis –
Mercy, detached from justice, grows unmerciful.
– CS Lewis –
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.
– CS Lewis –
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
– CS Lewis –