CS Lewis Quotes
Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.
It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is... because that is what it is to live.
Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.
Want to enjoy an restful day? Wake up, turn your phone on, meditate, look at the sky—then toss your phone into the bushes.
The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.
There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.
When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.
If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.
Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.
Sometimes it is hard not to say "God forgive God." Sometimes, it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.
To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.
Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.
If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!
Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.
True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn’t always efficient.
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselves as a member of an exclusive Heaven club.
But who is Aslan? Do you know him?""Well-he knows me, " said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.
When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead
The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.
Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.
I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.
If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.
In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.
The idyll ended, as idylls must.
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.