--- title: "17 Enjoy Quotes By C. S. Lewis" description: "17 Enjoy quotes by C. S. Lewis. Plus more from C. S. Lewis and more Enjoy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/c-s-lewis-2-132_enjoy_the-lost-enjoy-forever-the-horrible-free_1263050.png" --- > [The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-lost-enjoy-forever-the-horrible-freedom-they-have-demanded/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/c-s-lewis-2-132_enjoy_the-lost-enjoy-forever-the-horrible-free_1263050.png) > [“One day you may be old enough to enjoy fairytales again”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/one-day-you-may-be-old-enough-to-enjoy-fairytales-again/) [C. S. LEWIS](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/c-s-lewis-2-132_enjoy_one-day-you-may-be-old-enough-to-enjoy-f_1778995.png) > [In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/in-commanding-us-to-glorify-him-god-is-inviting-us-to-enjoy-him/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cb/c-s-lewis-2-132_enjoy_in-commanding-us-to-glorify-him-god-is-i_1189793.png) > [We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-do-not-enjoy-a-story-fully-at-the-first-reading-not-till-the/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/c-s-lewis-2-132_curiosity_we-do-not-enjoy-a-story-fully-at-the-fir_1146583.png) > [Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/though-i-do-not-believe-that-my-desire-for-paradise-proves-that-i/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/c-s-lewis-2-132_believe_though-i-do-not-believe-that-my-desire-f_322784.png) > [The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-more-imagination-the-reader-has-the-more-he-will-do-for-himself/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/460/c-s-lewis-2-132_books_the-more-imagination-the-reader-has-the_2158522.png) > [In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/in-my-experience-it-is-affection-that-creates-this-taste-teaching-us/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94b/c-s-lewis-2-132_affection_in-my-experience-it-is-affection-that-cr_1256103.jpg) > [There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/there-is-a-story-about-a-schoolboy-who-was-asked-what-he-thought-god/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/c-s-lewis-2-132_enjoy_there-is-a-story-about-a-schoolboy-who-w_3193095.png) > [We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-want-in-fact-not-so-much-a-father-in-heaven-as-a-grandfather-in/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/c-s-lewis-2-132_attitude_we-want-in-fact-not-so-much-a-father-in_3160072.jpg) > [A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-great-many-people-not-you-do-now-seem-to-think-that-the-mere-state/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/c-s-lewis-2-132_bird_a-great-many-people-not-you-do-now-seem_1378654.jpg) > [But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/but-the-most-obvious-fact-about-praise-whether-of-god-or-anything-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/c-s-lewis-2-132_approval_but-the-most-obvious-fact-about-praise-w_2647724.png) > [To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/to-live-his-life-in-his-own-way-to-call-his-house-his-castle-to-enjoy/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85e/c-s-lewis-2-132_castles_to-live-his-life-in-his-own-way-to-call_1234031.jpg) > [The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-scotch-catechism-says-that-man-s-chief-end-is-to-glorify-god-and/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/c-s-lewis-2-132_catechism_the-scotch-catechism-says-that-man-s-chi_753724.png) > [Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/temperance-referred-not-abstaining-but-going-the-right-length-and-no/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/c-s-lewis-2-132_abstaining_temperance-referred-not-abstaining-but-g_1445461.jpg) > [It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/it-is-usual-to-speak-in-a-playfully-apologetic-tone-about-one-s-adult-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/c-s-lewis-2-132_adults_it-is-usual-to-speak-in-a-playfully-apol_2627599.jpg) > [A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-man-s-physical-hunger-does-not-prove-that-man-will-get-any-bread-he/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5c/c-s-lewis-2-132_believe_a-man-s-physical-hunger-does-not-prove-t_3099527.png) > [But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/but-the-most-obvious-fact-about-praise-whether-of-god-or-anything/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/c-s-lewis-2-132_approval_but-the-most-obvious-fact-about-praise-w_2601790.jpg) ## Other authors on Enjoy ## More by C. S. Lewis > [One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/one-of-our-great-allies-at-present-is-the-church-itself-do-not/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/either-jesus-is-the-son-of-god-or-a-madman-or-worse-but-his-being/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/to-every-soul-god-will-look-like-its-first-love-because-he-is-its/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/don-t-you-understand-anything-isn-t-it-absolutely-essential-to-keep-a/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/really-great-moral-teachers-never-do-introduce-new-moralities-it-is/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/when-he-died-in-the-wounded-world-he-died-not-for-men-but-for-each/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/all-i-am-in-private-life-is-a-literary-critic-and-historian-that-s-my/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/if-a-man-is-going-to-write-on-chemistry-he-learns-chemistry-the-same/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-first-fact-in-the-history-of-christendom-is-a-number-of-people/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/i-pray-because-the-need-flows-out-of-me-all-the-time-walking-and/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/are-the-gods-not-just-oh-no-child-what-would-become-us-us-if-they-were/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/love-is-more-than-an-emotion-it-is-a-decision/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Ink is the great cure for all human ills.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/ink-is-the-great-cure-for-all-human-ills/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-man-may-have-to-die-for-our-country-but-no-man-must-in-any/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/war-creates-no-absolutely-new-situation-it-simply-aggravates-the/) [C. S. 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