"Courage is acting in spite of fear."

Hunter, Howard W. | Courage | 3 bookmarks

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."

Lewis, C. S. | Misers and Misery | 1 bookmarks

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

Lewis, C. S. | Miracles | 4 bookmarks

"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere."

Lewis, C. S. | Miracles | 2 bookmarks

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

Lewis, C. S. | Marriage | 4 bookmarks

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

Lewis, C. S. | Joy | 2 bookmarks

"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. | Humankind | 5 bookmarks

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

Lewis, C. S. | Hell | 4 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

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

Lewis, C. S. | Pain | 6 bookmarks