CS Lewis Quotes

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.

I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.