CS Lewis Quotes

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

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

Success is one thing, impact is another

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Do not dare not to dare.

Deliverance from believing lies must come from believing truth.

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.