All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes… All
- I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. Funny
- In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. All
- In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it. Another Name
- But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want;… All
- If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better… Age
- Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize… Distasteful
- Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. Abstract
- The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite,… Ceremonial
- Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. Childish
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.… Across
- All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning… Adventure
- They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite… Allow
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too… Almost Pure
- Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left… Air
- and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed. Always Found
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Inspirational
- Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. Awake
- Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours. Coming
- In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. Been
- A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing. All
- It is always the novice who exaggerates. Exaggerates
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning… All
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a… All
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not… Afraid