CS Lewis Quotes

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

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

I am fond of children - except boys.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.