C S Lewis on Burnout Quotes

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good."

"One must not try to be more spiritual than God."

"He [God] wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

"The troughs... are the very periods at which the Enemy’s cause is most gaining ground."

"The future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time."

"The habit of overwork is a form of vanity."

"God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror."

"Rest is a holy thing."

"We are far too easily pleased."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"The demand that I should be 'doing something' is often a temptation."

"The truth is that we are all exhausted, and the truth is that we are all loved."

"The state of the soul is not to be judged by its feelings."

"I have found that the 'dry' periods are the ones where the most growth happens."

"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern."

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal... their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation."

"God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature."

"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God alone."

"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become."

"The only thing that can save us from the 'inner ring' is a refusal to enter it."

"The long, dull, monotonous years... are excellent campaigning weather."

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

"Pain insists upon being attended to."

"The world rings with the word 'Progress'—but you cannot have progress without a destination."

"The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning."

"If you find in yourself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world."

"Never, never forget that we are very tired and that our souls are very thin."

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take yourself too seriously."

"We must not be discouraged by our own fatigue."