To me it seems that a great many different emotions are united in the perception of beauty: it may turn out to be not a simple thing but a result of unions. For one thing nearly all beautiful sights are to me chiefly important as reminders of other beautiful sights: without memory twould be a [...]

I take it that in every marriage natural love sooner or later, in a high or low degree, comes up against difficulties (if only the difficulty that the original state of ‘being in love’ dies a natural death) which force it either to turn into dislike or else to turn into Christian charity. For all [...]

Now the second reason [for marriage given in the Common Book of Prayer] involves the whole Christian view of sex. It is all contained in Christ’s saying that two shall be ‘one flesh’. He says nothing about two ‘who married for love’: the mere fact of marriage at all – however it came about — [...]

The modern tradition is that the proper reason for marrying is the state described as ‘being in love’. Now I have nothing to say against ‘being in love’: but the idea that this is or ought to be the exclusive reason or that it can ever be by itself an adequate basis seems to me [...]

‘How like a god’ is a man until he makes the fatal false step of claiming divinity and goes plumb down to devilhood.
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“Letter to Daphne Harwood, 06 March 1942,” The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Vol. II, 512.

My view of Being-in-love is that (like everything except God and the Devil) it is better than some things and worse than others. Thus it comes in my scale of values higher than lust, selfishness, or frigidity, but lower than charity or constancy — in fact about on a level with friendship. Like everything (except [...]

I am so glad you have really enjoyed a Morris once again I had the same feeling about it as you, in a way, with this proviso — that I don’t think Morris was conscious of the meaning either here or in any of his works, except Love is Enough where the flame actually breaks [...]