All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. Author
- And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. Always Raises
- God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. Attention
- Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. Ill
- Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Find
- Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. Centre
- Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. Incessantly
- A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of… All
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. Asserted
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the… Absolute
- Much is expected from those to whom much is given. Expected
- The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ. Christ
- Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music? Apart
- Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend… Action
- It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good. Expected
- Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. Accepted
- You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. Ghost
- I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else All
- One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. Christian
- In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love. Eternal
- The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. Down
- Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.' Exclaims
- This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash,… Careful
- God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent,… Activity
- God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him Cost