CS Lewis Quotes

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.

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 may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

Deliverance from believing lies must come from believing truth.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

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.

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.

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

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.