All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will… Absence
- Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date… Acceptance
- The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Belief
- The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even… Beloved
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to… Bad
- Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory. Day
- Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. Always Trying
- Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. Adventure
- We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. Behaviour
- All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died… All
- All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks… All
- A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. Defending
- Obedience is the road to freedom. Freedom
- We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. Ambition
- To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the… Beloved
- I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence. Hardly
- In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. Commanding
- The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see. Anxious
- Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in Christ
- Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. Any
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot… Acutely
- Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself… All
- Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge… Beauty
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. Any
- Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy. Earthly