CS Lewis Quotes
Allow your pain to fuel your purpose. Some of the greatest opportunities you will ever experience in life will come from the greatest pain you have experienced in your life.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.
Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?
The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie journey.
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.
He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.
We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.
A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.
there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.
I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.
Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger"."That is because you are older, little one" answered he."Not because you are?""I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.
The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.
The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.
Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.
The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.
The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied.
Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.
I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.
You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.
Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.
As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.