All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.… Aid
- Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory. Fall
- Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection Anywhere
- Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted,… Accepted
- The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. Deal
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber… Ambition
- When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will… Adventure
- Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful… All
- Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Arguments
- In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. Different Men
- We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if… Anything Even
- The death of a beloved is an amputation. Amputation
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. Describe
- Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… Abstract
- Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort… Asked
- God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous Funny
- if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. Better
- Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his… Almost Love
- It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. All
- If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account'… Account
- God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was… All
- We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least. Best
- When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. Away Childish
- By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? Act
- The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt… Beach