CS Lewis Quotes

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

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

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.

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

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I am filled with humidity.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.