C. S. Lewis

Quotes

• “Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of th...”
• “Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we c...”
• “What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, an...”
• “Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of t...”
• “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who though...”
• “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining a...”
• “In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. Afte...”
• “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. L...”
• “Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold a...”
• “Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spe...”
• “A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each se...”
• “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 w...”
• “History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good thin...”
• “Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot...”
• “The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human t...”
• “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without mileston...”
• “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then h...”
• “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, h...”
• “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything b...”
• “Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest rea...”
• “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchan...”
• “It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.”
• “Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”
• “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.”
• “The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.”
• “Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”
• “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
• “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”
• “There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
• “I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.”
• “True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.”
• “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
• “How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
• “Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
• “Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”
• “Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
• “You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
• “We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.”
• “Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
• “Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
• “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”
• “Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
• “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”