C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice …"

"I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it."

"Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend."

"... in such a matter he would never have been guided by his first thoughts nor even by his twenty-first . Beyond doubt he would have prolonged deliberation till his hundred-and-first; and they would b…"

"But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?"

"If we cannot "practice the presence of God," it is something to practice the absence of God, to become increasingly aware of our unawareness till we feel like man who should stand beside a great catar…"

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.…"

"Her absence is no more emphatic in those places than anywhere else. It's not local at all. I suppose if one were forbidden all salt one wouldn't notice it much more in any one food more than another. …"