All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. Christianity
- And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should… All
- If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for… All
- I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly… Abolition
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… Any
- Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be… Bright
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only… Act
- Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty… Approach
- Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. Alone
- Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot,… Blue
- Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of… All
- We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty… Air
- All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. All
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. Beauty
- You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all… All
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. Christianity
- Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom… Buy
- Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved. Beloved
- God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. Armed
- To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an… Artist
- And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at… All
- Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery… Day
- What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation… Alone
- The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his… All
- For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… Awakened