Raissa

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces