All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the… Attacks
- The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he… Develop
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… Ambition
- The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say… Any
- If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. Community
- Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. All
- The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) Alexander
- Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and… Calling
- You can't know, you can only believe - or not. Believe
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say… All
- Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the… All
- Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. All
- I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. Adore
- Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s… Beaver
- He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. Everything Else
- There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. Bad
- There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. Good
- Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. All
- I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man. Feels Like
- It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. Childhood
- Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. Amount
- Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick. Been
- In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can… Almost Nothing
- Always winter but never Christmas. Always Winter
- But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our… Adventure