C.S. Lewis, a profound thinker

"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The Weight of Glory

"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The Case for Christianity

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The Problem of Pain

"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The Problem of Pain

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The Problem of Pain

"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
From C.S. Lewis' -- The World's Last Night

"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."
From C.S. Lewis' -- Mere Christianity

"Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot from their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity."
From C.S. Lewis' -- Perelandra

"Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death."
From C.S. Lewis' -- Letters (c. September 1940)

"'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.'"
From C.S. Lewis' --Out of the Silent Planet

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
From C.S. Lewis' -- Mere Christianity