All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed... Ashamed
- We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved… Christ
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. Blamed
- You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things… Cannot Go
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… Abstinence
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must… Acts
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor… Been
- I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the… Believe
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,… Ceasing
- Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather… Aslan
- The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see… Affection
- In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. Desire
- Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year… Answered
- Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy.… Asked
- Suspicion often creates what it suspects. Creates
- No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did. Believe
- But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear… Across
- The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… Academic
- Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. Destiny
- The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a… Always Blowing
- Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition… All
- At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among… Affair
- I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of… Art
- People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. Another Often
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it… Admiration