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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. By C.s. Lewis
You have never talked to a mere mortal. By C.s. Lewis
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. By C.s. Lewis
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love. By C.s. Lewis
When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld. By C.s. Lewis
To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go. By C.s. Lewis
If you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike By C.s. Lewis
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. By C.s. Lewis
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. By C.s. Lewis
The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. By C.s. Lewis
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. By C.s. Lewis
and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him. By C.s. Lewis
If the universe is so bad ... how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? By C.s. Lewis
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another. By C.s. Lewis
Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life. Now or never. By C.s. Lewis
And that was the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right, it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia. By C.s. Lewis
As for wrinklesPshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. By C.s. Lewis
Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends? By C.s. Lewis
I hid all the things I was feeling and indeed I did not know what they were, except that all the peace of that autumnal journey was gone By C.s. Lewis
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely. By C.s. Lewis
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. By C.s. Lewis
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. By C.s. Lewis
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. By C.s. Lewis
How can we meet them face to face, till we have faces? By C.s. Lewis
He could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn't know (and presumably still doesn't know) it had been killed. He By C.s. Lewis
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. By C.s. Lewis
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. By C.s. Lewis
IT IS A COMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge is in continual growth. By C.s. Lewis
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are. By C.s. Lewis
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. By C.s. Lewis
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. By C.s. Lewis
All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. By C.s. Lewis
You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious, By C.s. Lewis
At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favourable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, By C.s. Lewis
Out here, in the cold, with the moon and the huge stars overhead and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland. By C.s. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. By C.s. Lewis
One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them. By C.s. Lewis
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. By C.s. Lewis
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back. By C.s. Lewis
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. By C.s. Lewis
God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real. By C.s. Lewis
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. By C.s. Lewis
I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are. By C.s. Lewis
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. By C.s. Lewis
I sometimes wonder whether you think you have been sent into the world for your own amusement. By C.s. Lewis
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. By C.s. Lewis
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. By C.s. Lewis
Forget your pride (what have you to be proud of?) and forget your anger (who has done you wrong?) and accept the mercy of these good kings. By C.s. Lewis
Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. By C.s. Lewis
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. By C.s. Lewis
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. By C.s. Lewis
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought. By C.s. Lewis
As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance. By C.s. Lewis
Why should your heart not dance? By C.s. Lewis
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. By C.s. Lewis
Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. By C.s. Lewis
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. By C.s. Lewis
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North! By C.s. Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him. By C.s. Lewis
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. By C.s. Lewis
Love is the great conqueror of lust. By C.s. Lewis
I'd like to walk there again. It was so lonely - a nice kind of loneliness, and all grass and clover and soft sea air. By C.s. Lewis
Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together? By C.s. Lewis
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. By C.s. Lewis
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. By C.s. Lewis
Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world? By C.s. Lewis
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. By C.s. Lewis
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait. By C.s. Lewis
When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House. By C.s. Lewis
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. By C.s. Lewis
Read and Re-ReadRe-reading, we always find a new book. By C.s. Lewis
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. By C.s. Lewis
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. By C.s. Lewis
The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. By C.s. Lewis
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. By C.s. Lewis
[Aslan said,] Well done, last of the Kings of Narnia, who stood firm at the darkest hour. By C.s. Lewis
Courage, dear heart. By C.s. Lewis
Hail, Aslan. We hear ans obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know. By C.s. Lewis
Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door. By C.s. Lewis
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. By C.s. Lewis
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. By C.s. Lewis
For Narnia and for Aslan! By C.s. Lewis
this is a book about something By C.s. Lewis
Please, Aslan," said Lucy, "what do you call soon?""I call all times soon", said Aslan. By C.s. Lewis
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. By C.s. Lewis
I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes. By C.s. Lewis
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit ... By C.s. Lewis
Is it rational to believe in a bad God? Anyway, in a God so bad as all that? The Cosmic Sadist, the spiteful imbecile? By C.s. Lewis
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him By C.s. Lewis
that is just why a vague religion - all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work: By C.s. Lewis
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. By C.s. Lewis
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. By C.s. Lewis
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. By C.s. Lewis
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power By C.s. Lewis
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. By C.s. Lewis
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide. By C.s. Lewis
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us. By C.s. Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. By C.s. Lewis
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. By C.s. Lewis
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals By C.s. Lewis
Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. By C.s. Lewis
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints. By C.s. Lewis
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. By C.s. Lewis
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. By C.s. Lewis
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. By C.s. Lewis
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us. By C.s. Lewis
while they had been talking the stars had grown fainter and great gaps of white light were appearing in the greyness of the eastern sky. By C.s. Lewis
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. By C.s. Lewis
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. By C.s. Lewis
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. By C.s. Lewis
The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell. By C.s. Lewis
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began By C.s. Lewis
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. By C.s. Lewis
It is essential of the happy life that a man would have almost no mail. By C.s. Lewis
Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name. By C.s. Lewis
For a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. By C.s. Lewis
He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. By C.s. Lewis
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development By C.s. Lewis
At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of systems. By C.s. Lewis
The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. By C.s. Lewis
Some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do. By C.s. Lewis
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred By C.s. Lewis
In our adversity, God shouts to us. By C.s. Lewis
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. By C.s. Lewis
Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration. By C.s. Lewis
And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose. By C.s. Lewis
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. By C.s. Lewis
That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged. By C.s. Lewis
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. By C.s. Lewis
Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say. By C.s. Lewis
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. By C.s. Lewis
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' By C.s. Lewis
Badness is only spoiled goodness. By C.s. Lewis
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. By C.s. Lewis
I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go. By C.s. Lewis
Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way. By C.s. Lewis
Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure. By C.s. Lewis
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. By C.s. Lewis
I came alive when I started loving you. By C.s. Lewis
He is the self-expression of the Father - what the Father has to say. And there never was a time when He was not saying it. By C.s. Lewis
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. By C.s. Lewis
Eustace stood with his heart beating terribly, hoping and hoping that he would be brave. By C.s. Lewis
He was almost afraid to be alone with himself and yet he was ashamed to be with others. By C.s. Lewis
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. By C.s. Lewis
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. By C.s. Lewis
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. By C.s. Lewis
Do you know what it is? There's one part love in your heart, and five parts anger, and seven parts pride. By C.s. Lewis
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. By C.s. Lewis
Many thingssuch as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedlyare done worst when we try hardest to do them. By C.s. Lewis
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. By C.s. Lewis
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude. By C.s. Lewis
He bawled up at the giant, 'Hi! You up there ... what's your name?'Giant Rumblebuffin, if you please, your honor ... By C.s. Lewis
When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead By C.s. Lewis
For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and decorum than to endure minor inconvenience with constancy By C.s. Lewis
You have listened to fears, Child,' said Aslan. 'Come, let me breathe on you. Forget them. Are you brave again? By C.s. Lewis
You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow. By C.s. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. By C.s. Lewis
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. By C.s. Lewis
Reason may win truths; without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases. By C.s. Lewis
the exacting memory of childhood can discover no flaw - nothing but kindness, gaiety, and good sense. By C.s. Lewis
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. By C.s. Lewis
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. By C.s. Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. By C.s. Lewis
All the things magicians doCould be done by me and youFreely, if we only knew. By C.s. Lewis
Have fun, even if it's not the same kind of fun everyone else is having. By C.s. Lewis
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. By C.s. Lewis
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. By C.s. Lewis
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. By C.s. Lewis
I don't want to hold you hand! By C.s. Lewis
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. By C.s. Lewis
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. By C.s. Lewis
They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives. By C.s. Lewis
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. By C.s. Lewis
She was nearly fainting: indeed, she wished she could really faint, but faints don't come for the asking. By C.s. Lewis
Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well. By C.s. Lewis
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. By C.s. Lewis
My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon. By C.s. Lewis
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less. By C.s. Lewis
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. By C.s. Lewis
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. By C.s. Lewis
But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used. By C.s. Lewis
The real pacificus is he who promotes peace, not he who gasses about it. By C.s. Lewis
If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. By C.s. Lewis
She had been a great lady, wise and gracious and happy. By C.s. Lewis
The living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. By C.s. Lewis
I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not. By C.s. Lewis
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. By C.s. Lewis
The bright side of it is," said Puddleglum, "that if we break our necks getting down the cliff, then we're safe from being drowned in the river. By C.s. Lewis
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. By C.s. Lewis
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. By C.s. Lewis
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. By C.s. Lewis
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. By C.s. Lewis
It's so large""It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?""smaller By C.s. Lewis
You have gone into the Temple ... and found Him, as always, there. By C.s. Lewis
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. By C.s. Lewis
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. By C.s. Lewis
When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter. By C.s. Lewis
It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past. By C.s. Lewis
I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed. By C.s. Lewis
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. By C.s. Lewis
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. By C.s. Lewis
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. By C.s. Lewis
Always winter but never Christmas. By C.s. Lewis
It's always winter but it's never Christmas. By C.s. Lewis
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. By C.s. Lewis
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self. By C.s. Lewis
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. By C.s. Lewis
He had not yet learned that sometimes your reward for doing one task well is to be set with a harder and better one. By C.s. Lewis
Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold. By C.s. Lewis
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. By C.s. Lewis
A man ... can find comfort in words coming out of his own mouth. By C.s. Lewis
Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory. By C.s. Lewis
Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost before you have touched it. By C.s. Lewis
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life. By C.s. Lewis
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. By C.s. Lewis
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not. By C.s. Lewis
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. By C.s. Lewis
The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. By C.s. Lewis
I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. By C.s. Lewis
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. By C.s. Lewis
The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony. By C.s. Lewis
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. By C.s. Lewis
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day only the shadows were rather confusing. By C.s. Lewis
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye) ... By C.s. Lewis
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. By C.s. Lewis
Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else. By C.s. Lewis
If you funk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing. It By C.s. Lewis
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. By C.s. Lewis
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. By C.s. Lewis
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. By C.s. Lewis
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion. By C.s. Lewis
The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it. By C.s. Lewis
Unsatisfactory answers do not become satisfactory by being tentative. By C.s. Lewis
Well, if it's the best you can do, I suppose you must By C.s. Lewis
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. By C.s. Lewis
How should man live save as glassTo let the white light without flame, the Father, passUnstained ... By C.s. Lewis
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. By C.s. Lewis
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. By C.s. Lewis
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes. By C.s. Lewis
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. By C.s. Lewis
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. By C.s. Lewis
He'll be coming and going. One day you'll see him and another you won't. By C.s. Lewis
Often, when I pray, I wonder if I'm not posting letters to a non-existent address. By C.s. Lewis
The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed. By C.s. Lewis
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? By C.s. Lewis
And the feasts on the poop and the musicians. By C.s. Lewis
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. By C.s. Lewis
For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in. By C.s. Lewis
For it is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) 'having to depend solely on God' is what we all dread most. By C.s. Lewis
Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best? By C.s. Lewis
Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false. By C.s. Lewis
And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. By C.s. Lewis
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. By C.s. Lewis
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give youalmost apart from their meaninga thrill like music? By C.s. Lewis
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now By C.s. Lewis
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. By C.s. Lewis
We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves. By C.s. Lewis
There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors. By C.s. Lewis
Ungit tells me things. I hear of terrible doings in this land, mortals aping the gods and stealing the worship due By C.s. Lewis
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. By C.s. Lewis
Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. By C.s. Lewis
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God. By C.s. Lewis
He cannot ravish; He can only woo. By C.s. Lewis
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. By C.s. Lewis
the Christian view that this is a good world that has gone wrong, but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been. By C.s. Lewis
No generation can bequeath to its successors what it has not got.'3 By C.s. Lewis
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. By C.s. Lewis
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again. By C.s. Lewis
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen. By C.s. Lewis
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others. By C.s. Lewis
...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things. By C.s. Lewis
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. By C.s. Lewis
Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual. By C.s. Lewis
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. By C.s. Lewis
Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold. By C.s. Lewis
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. By C.s. Lewis
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated By C.s. Lewis
God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy. By C.s. Lewis
Oh God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!' Thanks to our labours, this will mean increasingly, 'Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite'. By C.s. Lewis
We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved. By C.s. Lewis
Where oppression does not completely and permanently break the spirit, has it not a natural tendency to produce retaliatory pride and contempt? By C.s. Lewis
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ... By C.s. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? By C.s. Lewis
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth the very thing the whole story has been about. By C.s. Lewis
Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? By C.s. Lewis
If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones! By C.s. Lewis
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. By C.s. Lewis
The sight of his great valour and of the extremity of his passion might incline her heart to him. By C.s. Lewis
At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit. By C.s. Lewis
Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. By C.s. Lewis
I was quite safe. That is why the Lion kept on my left. He was between me and the edge all the time. By C.s. Lewis
But who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy By C.s. Lewis
We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing. By C.s. Lewis
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. By C.s. Lewis
God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must! By C.s. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. By C.s. Lewis
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. By C.s. Lewis
If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. By C.s. Lewis
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? By C.s. Lewis
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection By C.s. Lewis
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. By C.s. Lewis
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly By C.s. Lewis
As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others. By C.s. Lewis
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. By C.s. Lewis
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. By C.s. Lewis
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible By C.s. Lewis
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. By C.s. Lewis
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? By C.s. Lewis
A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian. By C.s. Lewis
The only people who hate escapism are jailers. By C.s. Lewis
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. By C.s. Lewis
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. By C.s. Lewis
Bad laws make hard cases. By C.s. Lewis
Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? By C.s. Lewis
Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth. By C.s. Lewis
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. By C.s. Lewis
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. By C.s. Lewis
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. By C.s. Lewis
Little from you is really a bit too much By C.s. Lewis
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. By C.s. Lewis
Who are you?'One who has waited long for you to speak. By C.s. Lewis
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. By C.s. Lewis
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. By C.s. Lewis
Take care. It is so easy to break eggs without making omelettes. By C.s. Lewis
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. By C.s. Lewis
Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. By C.s. Lewis
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. By C.s. Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. By C.s. Lewis
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. By C.s. Lewis
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are. By C.s. Lewis
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. By C.s. Lewis
God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. By C.s. Lewis
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? By C.s. Lewis
I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer. By C.s. Lewis
If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. By C.s. Lewis
The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. By C.s. Lewis
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. By C.s. Lewis
Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. By C.s. Lewis
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. By C.s. Lewis
He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration. By C.s. Lewis
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves. By C.s. Lewis
But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow. By C.s. Lewis
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. By C.s. Lewis
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body. By C.s. Lewis
they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes. By C.s. Lewis
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither. By C.s. Lewis
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' By C.s. Lewis
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction. By C.s. Lewis
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. By C.s. Lewis
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! By C.s. Lewis
So many thingsnay every real thingis good if only it will be humble and ordinate. By C.s. Lewis
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. By C.s. Lewis
We are apt to think that God only wants actions of a particular kind, whereas He is most interested in people of a particular sort. By C.s. Lewis
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist? By C.s. Lewis
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. By C.s. Lewis
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. By C.s. Lewis
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. By C.s. Lewis
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. By C.s. Lewis
The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. By C.s. Lewis
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. By C.s. Lewis
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross. By C.s. Lewis
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity. By C.s. Lewis
What people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean 'Love is God. By C.s. Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. By C.s. Lewis
It is not enough to want to get rid of one's sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins. By C.s. Lewis
Sweet master doctor, learned master doctor, who ever heard of a witch that really died? You can always get them back. By C.s. Lewis
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. By C.s. Lewis
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? By C.s. Lewis
If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam, and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out. By C.s. Lewis
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death. By C.s. Lewis
What's done is done. There is no need to speak with Edmond about his past. By C.s. Lewis
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, I am what I do. By C.s. Lewis
Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision. By C.s. Lewis
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. By C.s. Lewis
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. By C.s. Lewis
The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. By C.s. Lewis
[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him. By C.s. Lewis
I don't believe your theory that "readers never notice that sort of thing." I'm sure I should. By C.s. Lewis
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. By C.s. Lewis
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. By C.s. Lewis
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. By C.s. Lewis
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.' By C.s. Lewis
... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. By C.s. Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. By C.s. Lewis
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say. By C.s. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. By C.s. Lewis
For images, of the one kind or of the other, will come; we cannot jump off our own shadow. As By C.s. Lewis
Hence it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame. By C.s. Lewis
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. By C.s. Lewis
By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. By C.s. Lewis
To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite. By C.s. Lewis
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived. By C.s. Lewis
Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared. By C.s. Lewis
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life. By C.s. Lewis
Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. By C.s. Lewis
Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. By C.s. Lewis
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. By C.s. Lewis
Christians never say goodbye! By C.s. Lewis
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you. By C.s. Lewis
It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies. By C.s. Lewis
The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning! By C.s. Lewis
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. By C.s. Lewis
You Too? I thought I was the only one. By C.s. Lewis
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him. By C.s. Lewis
And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses. By C.s. Lewis
Murder! Fascists! Lions! It isn't fair. By C.s. Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. By C.s. Lewis
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it. By C.s. Lewis
Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick. By C.s. Lewis
Enjoy it well. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. Hail and be glad. By C.s. Lewis
Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. By C.s. Lewis
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else By C.s. Lewis
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? By C.s. Lewis
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy. By C.s. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. By C.s. Lewis
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, Do you care about the same truth? By C.s. Lewis
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. By C.s. Lewis
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. By C.s. Lewis
A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. By C.s. Lewis
God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal. By C.s. Lewis
Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism. By C.s. Lewis
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. By C.s. Lewis
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. By C.s. Lewis
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. By C.s. Lewis
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone. By C.s. Lewis
The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns. By C.s. Lewis
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. By C.s. Lewis
Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him. By C.s. Lewis
I am in love and out of it I will not go. By C.s. Lewis
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. By C.s. Lewis
We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ... By C.s. Lewis
No one can teach riding so well as a horse. By C.s. Lewis
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it. By C.s. Lewis
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. By C.s. Lewis
Friendship is ... the sort of love one canimagine between angels ... By C.s. Lewis
There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction. By C.s. Lewis
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man. By C.s. Lewis
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. By C.s. Lewis
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. By C.s. Lewis
Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts. It By C.s. Lewis
Safe?" said Mr. Beaver "Who said anything about safe?'"Course he isn't safe'"But he's good 'He's the king, I tell you. By C.s. Lewis
The quickest way you can help him is by going to meet Aslan," said Mr. Beaver, "once he's with us, then we can begin doing things. By C.s. Lewis
Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours. By C.s. Lewis
We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time. By C.s. Lewis
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. By C.s. Lewis
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks By C.s. Lewis
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. By C.s. Lewis
They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers and wore a special kind of underclothes. In By C.s. Lewis
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. By C.s. Lewis
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not. By C.s. Lewis
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins By C.s. Lewis
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet. By C.s. Lewis
Try to remember that the 'bottomless sea' can't hurt us as long as we keep on swimming. By C.s. Lewis
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. By C.s. Lewis
Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. By C.s. Lewis
It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils. By C.s. Lewis
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you neednot try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not. By C.s. Lewis
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. By C.s. Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? By C.s. Lewis
You must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And By C.s. Lewis
Of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. By C.s. Lewis
In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it. By C.s. Lewis
It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. By C.s. Lewis
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? By C.s. Lewis
Glory be!' said the Cabby. 'I'd ha' been a better man all my life if I'd known there were things like this. By C.s. Lewis
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. By C.s. Lewis
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. By C.s. Lewis
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. By C.s. Lewis
Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad. By C.s. Lewis
Young men are supposed to think themselves immortal, but the subject is not very often out of my mind for a long time together. By C.s. Lewis
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. By C.s. Lewis
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. By C.s. Lewis
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. By C.s. Lewis
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. By C.s. Lewis
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' By C.s. Lewis
We are ready to turn and twist the facts until they bear no resemblance to the original thing. By C.s. Lewis
Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake - with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness. By C.s. Lewis
I saw in a flash that if I shrank from this there would at once be less Queen and more Orual in me. By C.s. Lewis
It is not fatigue simply as such that produces the anger, but unexpected demands on a man already tired. By C.s. Lewis
Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. By C.s. Lewis
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. By C.s. Lewis
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. By C.s. Lewis
Yes," he said dully to the sorn. "That is my world." It was the bleakest moment in all his travels. By C.s. Lewis
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. By C.s. Lewis
His lips may say the words, but his heart adds, But please don't let it be yet. By C.s. Lewis
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. By C.s. Lewis
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels. By C.s. Lewis
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily. By C.s. Lewis
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. By C.s. Lewis
Uncle Andrew, you see, was working with things he did not really understand; most magicians are. By C.s. Lewis
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality. By C.s. Lewis
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. By C.s. Lewis
We need to keep our eyes and ears open. By C.s. Lewis
History is a story written by the finger of God. By C.s. Lewis
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose. By C.s. Lewis
As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural. By C.s. Lewis
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. By C.s. Lewis
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. By C.s. Lewis
The longest way round is the shortest way home.(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) By C.s. Lewis
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. By C.s. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. By C.s. Lewis
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is. By C.s. Lewis
they'd have him as right as rain in a day or two. And By C.s. Lewis
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. By C.s. Lewis
Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck. By C.s. Lewis
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him. By C.s. Lewis
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact, will not make us happy. By C.s. Lewis
Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country. By C.s. Lewis
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. By C.s. Lewis
To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours. By C.s. Lewis
Autumn is really the best of the seasons By C.s. Lewis
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees By C.s. Lewis
Humour is ... the all-consoling and ... the all-excusing, grace of life. By C.s. Lewis
I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.'Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee. By C.s. Lewis
After all, real things are not simple. By C.s. Lewis
People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say. By C.s. Lewis
The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty... By C.s. Lewis
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. By C.s. Lewis