C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Quotes
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.
The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.
