All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself. Content
- Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will Abuse
- I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using… Become Almost
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a… Choice
- Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of… Christian
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and… All
- Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it… Angel
- We do not want to merely “see†beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it. Beauty
- At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' All
- If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. Another World
- The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the… Catechism
- Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. Besides
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Arms
- Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' Christ
- The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than… Animal
- The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. Becomes
- I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. Among
- There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and… Easy
- The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world,… Advantage
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. Creatures