“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
— C. S. Lewis
“It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”
— C. S. Lewis
“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
— C. S. Lewis
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
— C. S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”
— C. S. Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
— C. S. Lewis
“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
— C. S. Lewis