CS Lewis Quotes

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

Things never happen the same way twice.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.