C. S. Lewis Quotes on Connection

5 quotes

  1. God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

  2. God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  3. 'No thanks,' said Digory, 'I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.' (ch. 13)

  4. 'You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,' said the Lion. (ch. 2)

  5. Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'

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