C.S Lewis

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Acceptance • Happiness • Loss

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Ethics • Justice • Morality

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Friendship • Memories • Music

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

Civilization • Morality • Society

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Friendship • Wisdom

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.

Beliefs • Laws • Nature

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Experience • Learning • Philosophy

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Actions • Growth • Improvement

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Courage • Leadership

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

Freedom • Laws • Morality

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Corruption • Leadership • Politics

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Beliefs • Religion • Skepticism

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Beliefs • Death • Life

We’re not creatures that need improvement, we’re rebels that need to lay down their arms.

We’re not creatures that need improvement, we’re rebels that need to lay down their arms.

Acceptance • Improvement • Peace

God is not deceived by the externals.

God is not deceived by the externals.

Beliefs • Faith • Morality

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Happiness • Loss

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't.

Beliefs • Faith • Philosophy

Friendship is unnecessary, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is unnecessary, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship • Survival

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.

Love