All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned… Argument
- To love at all is to be vulnerable. All
- I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing… Charge
- Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. Conscious
- If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to… Arrival
- True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. Common
- It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. Comfort
- Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,… Devil
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than… Afraid
- The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the… Artistic
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… Become Owners
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself… All
- 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. Inspirational
- A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. Little
- The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely… Among
- No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven… Across
- There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. Atheism
- If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… Answer
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… Alike
- Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots… Any