CS Lewis Quotes

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.