All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who… Admired
- The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills… Achievement
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. God
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to… Act
- God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of… Became
- How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. Alike
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is… All
- Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels. Angel
- Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs All
- Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. Arise
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the… Beloved
- Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. Easily
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… Association
- One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.… Along
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. Define
- Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. All
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish… All
- It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves… All
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces… All
- There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they… Admired