CS Lewis Quotes

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

It looks like frozen snot.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

People know I was the last true champion.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

You can make anything by writing.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.