All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has… Abandoned
- Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever… Able
- Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems… Aslan
- A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… Age
- God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.… Absolute
- Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where… All
- In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up… All
- Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. Conceals
- We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does… Contented
- Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware… All
- Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the… All
- Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think… All
- I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's… Bite
- Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude… Attention
- For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait. Gethsemane
- Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation… Achieve
- This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the… Act
- I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was… All
- The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing… Becoming
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than… Aim
- Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the… Central
- A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns… Adult
- Adventures are never fun while you're having them. Adventure
- Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. Detached
- If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them… Both