CS Lewis Quotes

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.