All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it. Beautiful
- All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. All
- If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very… Each
- Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. Best
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… Anything Else
- Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading Book
- One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. Home
- To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man. Fully
- I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there… Asked
- I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite… Act
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however… Affinities
- To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made… Alone
- When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? Enables
- Why must holy places be dark places? Dark
- Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body. Body
- You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. Dependent
- I want God, not my idea of God. God
- Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. Business
- We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms. Arms
- Delight is incomplete until it is expressed. Delight
- I am a product [...of] endless books. Book
- Forgiveness does not mean excusing. Doe
- There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,… Age
- In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church Church
- It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing… Arduous