All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'. Doctrine
- We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else… All
- To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies… Admire
- Hatred obscures all distinctions. All
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to… Admired
- The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... End
- The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… Apparent
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. All
- A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to… Blaze
- In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. Act
- For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. All
- In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are. Coming
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you… Character
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like… Avoid
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his… Any
- Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that… Belief
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other… Believe
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who… All
- It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden… All
- For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. Compulsion