"It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

-C.S. Lewis

“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.”

-C.S. Lewis

"A silly idea is current that good people don't know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who resist temptation know how bad it is. A man who gives in to temptation after 5 minutes does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That's why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They've lived a sheltered life by always giving in." 

-C.S. Lewis

"You will certainly carry out God's purpose, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John." -C.S. Lewis

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more." 

-C.S. Lewis

"Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you alone because you were made for it-stitch by stitch as a glove for a hand."

-C.S. Lewis

"No soul that seriously & constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find, to those who knock it is opened."

-C.S. Lewis

" 'Being in love' first moves us to promise fidelity: a quieter love enables us to keep the promise."

-C.S. Lewis

"Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

-C.S. Lewis

"What leads Christians home -- good actions or faith in Christ? Its like asking which blade of the scissors is most necessary."

-C.S. Lewis

"What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is." 

-C.S. Lewis

"To love is to be vulnerable. The only place outside Heaven where you can be safe from the dangers of love is Hell."

-C.S. Lewis

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

-C.S.Lewis

"Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why decisions you and I make every day are of infinite importance." 

-C.S. Lewis

"We shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest." 

-C.S. Lewis

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this 

world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that 

I was made for another world." 

-C.S. Lewis

"We live in a world starved for solitude silence & private, & therefore starved for meditation & true friendship."

-C.S.Lewis

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." -C.S. Lewis

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done" -C.S. Lewis

"No one can settle how much we ought to give. I'm afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare." -C.S.Lewis

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

"All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no "ordinary" people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."

-C.S. Lewis

This is one of my favorite quotes. Although I don't want to comment on posts often because I hope that the readers (though few :P) of this blog and the quotes I share will find their own meaning and personal application of the messages conveyed. This time, however, I wanted to write a little something about this quote.

I think one of the many reasons why this is a favorite of mine is the perspective it gives me. How awesome is it to think that we are not ordinary people, or mere mortals? How inspiring is the fact that we may one day become gods and goddesses? To me, that makes everything seem worthwhile and gives me a greater, more eternal perspective of all the craziness of my life.

Also, I like how C.S. Lewis points out the importance of not judging others because they, too, have the same potential that you do. He says that the "dullest and most uninteresting person" you meet may be a person you would want to worship if you could only see whom they will become. They have that divine nature, that eternal potential even if they choose not to reach for it.

I suppose that the ultimate reason that I love this quote is because at times, like most of us, I struggle with feelings of self-doubt and discouragement. This shows me that I really am a daughter of God of infinite worth and infinite potential. And it gives me the encouragement I need to continue to grow and progress to become like my Savior.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun: not only 

because I see it, but by it I see everything else."

-C.S.Lewis