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." C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 3
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 2
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
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. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
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. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
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. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
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. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1