Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
C. S. Lewis
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It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. Even an intimate human friend is ill-used if we talk to him about one thing while our mind is really on another, and even a human friend will soon become aware when we are doing so.
C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Surely what a man does when he is caught off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is?
C. S. Lewis
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
C. S. Lewis