CS Lewis Quotes

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

And what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?

Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.

Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

When I use a word, ' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, ' says the White Queen to Alice.

What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

If there is no meaning in it, " said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.

When I use a word, ’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

The time has come, " the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings

Love is a better way.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing, we do for others.

you're entirly bonkers but I'll tell you a secret all the best people are

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

am i insane" asked alice"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again."Keep your temper, " said the Caterpillar.

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

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

Little Alice fell d o w nthe hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

'The horror of that moment ' the King went on T shall never never forget!' 'You will though 'the Queen said 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'