CS Lewis Quotes

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

To love is to be vulnerable.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

I was born to race and to win.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.