C S Lewis on Burnout Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"The daily task is the daily cross."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Rest is a holy thing."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We are far too easily pleased."

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

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

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

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

"Pain insists upon being attended to."

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

"A moderated, and therefore a more sustainable, pace is often what is required."

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

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

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

"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."