CS Lewis Quotes

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Miracles are for beginners.

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.