C. S. Lewis on theology

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. To love is to be vulnerable.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Aldous Huxley1894–1963

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken1880–1956