CS Lewis Quotes

Passion is a rare flower that grows on the precipice of death. A few snatch it, and the rest are like an ox chewing its cud in a field.

...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

You all know, " said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes, " began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes.

The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

devotion, admiration and trust. No words really needed for such feelings. As all creatures know of theseunique colors in the rainbow of Love....

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I do wish, " said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

Get out of the blocks run your race stay relaxed. If you run your race you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

You only live once - but if you work it right once is enough.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you.

It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.