several quotes from CS Lewis:
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point frm which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it."
"We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear-the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls of fur come out; and then surprisingly, we shall find underneath it all a thing we have never yet imagined: a real man, an ageless god, a son of god, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful and drenched in JOY."
"All loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings...if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the JOY that is felt by the least in heaven--would have no weight that could be registered at all."
"JOY is the serious business of Heaven."
"When a man is getting worse, he understands his badness less and less. When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him"
from the book "The Four Loves":
"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 be unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."