CS Lewis Quotes

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

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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!

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

"The time has come " the Walrus said "To talk of many things Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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.'

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

I believe in forgiveness I believe in trying to work with people.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok

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

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

In our world, " said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

We are what we believe we are!

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.