CS Lewis Quotes

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.