C. S. Lewis quotes

C. S. Lewis was a British writer, scholar, and Christian apologist, best known for his works of fiction and religious essays. The Chronicles of Narnia is his most famous series, beloved by readers of all ages. He greatly influenced modern fantasy literature and Christian thought. Here are 361 of his quotes:

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. (C. S. Lewis)
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. View quote
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Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." View quote
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." View quote
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. View quote
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. View quote
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. View quote
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. View quote
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. View quote
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. View quote
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (C. S. Lewis)
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. View quote
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. View quote
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. View quote
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. View quote
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. View quote
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. View quote
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. View quote
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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. View quote
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. (C. S. Lewis)
We are what we believe we are. View quote
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. View quote
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas 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 ever having noticed it. View quote
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. View quote
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C. S. Lewis

Occupation: British Writer
Born: November 29, 1898
Died: November 22, 1963
Quotes count: 361
Wikipedia: C. S. Lewis

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