A Few Quotes from C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963 (source).

Thanksgiving Day this year was also the anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia and a man who never feared to have an opinion.  His thoughts on faith and life were far from systematic, but they were almost always memorable.  I thought it was a good day to share a couplefew:

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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.

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

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

These quotes and more here.