Quotes to be Remembered

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did 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."
-C. S. Lewis


"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
-C. S. Lewis

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


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn."
— C.S. Lewis


"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."
— C.S. Lewis


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
— Benjamin Franklin

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

"Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it."
— C.S. Lewis

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
-Ben Franklin

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
-Ben Franklin

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most"
-Swedish Proverb