C.S. Lewis Quotes

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire,

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again...

You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words:...

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, said the Lion.

If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean nothing by calling Him good; for to say 'God is good', while asserting that His goodne...

As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are di...

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (...

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mista...