CS Lewis Quotes

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Life, what is it but a dream?

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.