All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with… Boswell
- The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the… Certain
- Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something… All
- If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then… Bad
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life… Better
- Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of… All
- Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Concrete
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… Act
- You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the… Alike
- In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God… Afraid
- As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. Apprehension
- The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as… Age
- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,… Always Tell
- I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. Death
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...… All
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of… All
- Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I… Aquinas
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Affection
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Adventure
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. Art
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything… Atheism
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. Aim
- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Empowerment
- Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. Bad Day
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly… Bad