This Moment Contains All Moments

I am a REALLY big C.S. Lewis fan. So I thought I would share some of his quotes with everyone.


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


To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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.


This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.


This moment contains all moments.


God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.


What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.


Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.


We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.


The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.


Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.


Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.


If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.


No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.


I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.


He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.


Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.


There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan.


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.


Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.


You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.