C.S. Lewis Quotes

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.

...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'.

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.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation af...

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s...

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which g...

Always winter but never Christmas.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable sec...

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.