CS Lewis Quotes

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

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

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

There is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bllodeshot eye.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

We read to know we are not alone.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

For Narnia and for Aslan!

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.