CS Lewis Quotes

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

Effort is between you and you.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

I just want to complete my legacy.

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Freedom always comes with a price.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

Selfishness has never been admired.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Always winter but never Christmas.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.