C.S. Lewis

I love reading C.S. Lewis books, so I thought I would include some of my favorite quotes! :)

"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."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."

"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."