All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- We are what we believe we are. Belief
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some… Across
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. Atheism
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,… Bach
- Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Amphibians
- An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. Cause
- Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Generosity
- Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. Bodies
- The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. Believe
- This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. Disenchanted
- The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. Adversity
- How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. Age
- Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination
- Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect,… Add
- I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. All
- Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. Break
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. Call
- With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. Begins
- It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. Bore
- There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. Christian
- Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. Apart
- Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on… Day
- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it… Animal
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each… Claim
- If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. Any