C S Lewis Quotes

C S Lewis Quote of the day

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

this is a book about something

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We read to know we're not alone.

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Seeing’ two-dimensional images is therefore something that we learn to do

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very

He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart, " he told her, and left.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue

By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No, " I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

Go on till you come to the end

What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

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.

Don’t worry, hero. If the vamp shows up, I’m here to protect you.”“Great, I can hide behind your massive ego.