CS Lewis Quotes

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

They call him Aslan in That Place, " said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself, " said Eustace solemnly.

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

Passion without purpose leads to frustration.Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.Passion with purpose leads to success.

Achieving success is like hitting a moving target. Both require accuracy, the ability to counteract external factors and adjusting the sight when necessary.

The secret to succeeding in business, is in the first two letters of business... BU.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

I have come, " said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

I didn't know how to hold my lips.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

There is only one power greater than fear, and that is faith. Use your faith to move the mountains that are standing in your way today!

True happiness is a gift from God, find your happy place and stay there.

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 would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, " said the Lion.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.

My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

Time to write down the ingredients for a pipe bomb.

If you ingest too much sodium, you turn green.

And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

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

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape