All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? Disease
- The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't. Different Gods
- The absent are easily refuted. Absent
- Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. Asking
- Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. Completely
- Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. Always Forgiving
- It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. Bad
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where… Absent
- If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could… All
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Business
- Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. All
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to… Advantage
- The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is… Christian
- The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history… Achievement
- When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained… All
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It… Animal
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,… Case
- You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. Bad
- All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery. Adultery
- The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from… Adultery
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need… Age
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;… Age
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books… Added
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem… Alive
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a… All