CS Lewis Quotes

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games!

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

You cannot make men good by law.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.