All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Answer
- Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they… Afraid
- Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. Blessed
- What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you… Body
- My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others. Eye
- The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except… Canoe
- Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. Imaginary
- I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk. Down
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story… All
- The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is… Along
- Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him. Funny
- You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another. Chosen
- The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… Able
- He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into… Always Sends
- Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. All
- Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you… Agreement
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is… Action
- Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of… All
- Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… Comparison
- It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and… Age
- The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it… All
- Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:… Alone
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support… Agree
- Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… Age
- A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking… Atheism