CS Lewis Quotes

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Love is proved in the letting go.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

What I tell you three times is true.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.