"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin | Religion | 1 bookmarks

"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. | Heaven | 9 bookmarks

"I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."

Lewis, C. S. | Joy | 2 bookmarks

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

Lewis, C. S. | Miracles | 4 bookmarks

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. | Pain | 5 bookmarks

"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain."

Lewis, C. S. | Pleasure | 8 bookmarks

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. | Pride | 5 bookmarks

"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they own their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!"

Lewis, C. S. | Chastity | 2 bookmarks

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. | Christians and Christianity | 8 bookmarks

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. | Death and Dying | 5 bookmarks