CS Lewis Quotes

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

In the face of adversity, beautiful things emerge

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

The way it feels to me, ' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

When there is a challenge to be met, you can be sure someone will rise to it. When there is a job to be done, someone will do it and get the deserved praise for it. Will that person be you?

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

Hate obscures all distinctions.

The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,

You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.

It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization, " "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.