All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met? Eternal
- I don't want to hold you hand! Hand
- When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund Edmund
- Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. Brain
- Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose? Finding
- Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are… Avaricious
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. Baptism
- Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me. All
- A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And… Afraid
- But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes. All
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… Cannot Tempt
- The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when… Anthony
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized… Area
- This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday… Going Around
- You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. Been
- Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. All
- Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! Adam
- [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack… Backwards
- That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning. Adam
- I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I… Angry
- You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about… All
- And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the… All
- You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet. Better
- My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A… Argument
- Joy is the serious business of heaven. Business