Cl > Cl's Quotes

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“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

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
― Jane Austen

“...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time." - Anne Shirley”
― L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea

“I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work ­and teach ­and learn ­and laugh, yes, I will even laugh ­through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

“Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”
― Louisa May Alcott

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Marjorie's Three Gifts

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis