John Vee > John's Quotes

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“We are what we believe we are!”
― C.S. Lewis

“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost

“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
― Robert Frost

“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”
― Robert Frost

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
― Robert Frost

“Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”
― Robert Frost

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice