All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. Cannot Cease
- An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. Clothes
- Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. Desire
- No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. Aid
- God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Every Soul
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. Christ
- Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such… Believe
- We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... Born
- The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. Common
- Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. Choices
- If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying. Free
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. Adult
- Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Falsehood
- If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. All
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. Land
- It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Barons
- Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. All
- Human intellect is incurably abstract. Abstract
- The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. Cut
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. Analyze