The first book I read of former atheist C. S. Lewis’ was SURPRISED BY JOY. When his mother died, his father sent him to a boarding school because he thought he’d be raised more properly than what he could do.

This horrible experience was devastating for the young boy. Because of it, he didn’t believe God existed anymore. This book of his conversion is worth reading. You’ll never forget it.

Now I’m reading C.S. LEWIS: MERE CHRISTIAN, in which I was compelled to research and share some of his quotes which are seen on plaques, posters, and are available on internet. His wisdom is exceptional. I plan on getting as many of his books as I can. His experiences inspires me. The following quotes give you an idea of his foresight for better living: Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing (apart from Him.)

Aim at heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who id most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth—the imagination not least.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but because He loves us.

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than which will make him happy.

Some day you will be old enough to read fairy tales.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

And I’ll save the best for last: Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house.

At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on, you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense.

What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage; but he is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

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