CS Lewis Quotes

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded