C.S Lewis Best Quotes

[Property Of God]

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."

--The Weight of Glory

"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."

--The Weight of Glory

"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."

--The Weight of Glory

"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

--The Case for Christianity

"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."

--The Case for Christianity

"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."

--The Case for Christianity

"Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

--The Abolition of Man

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done..."

--from a letter "To Mrs. L.

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

--The Problem of Pain

"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."

--The Problem of Pain

"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

--The Problem of Pain

"The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness."

--The Problem of Pain

"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."

--The Problem of Pain

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."

--The Problem of Pain

"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you."

--The Problem of Pain

"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."

--The Problem of Pain

"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum..."

--Christian Reflections

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have ound out that it has no meaning..."

--Mere Christianity

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

--Reflections on the Psalms

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

--The Silver Chair

"The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think."

--Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

--Mere Christianity

"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."

--Mere Christianity

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

--The Last Battle

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

--Surprised by Joy

"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."

--Mere Christianity

"You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter."

--Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction."

--Surprised by Joy