C.S.Lewis Quotes

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I see, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I gave in and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we would never have discovered that it has no meaning: just as, if there is no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we would never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

If you cut the beasts simply because they can not prevent us and because we support our side in the struggle for existence, it makes sense to reduce it to imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

If you want the truth, you will find comfort in the end, if you have the convenience that you can not comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and at the end, desperate to get.
C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will see that the Christians who have the most to 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 are so ineffective in this area.
C. S. Lewis

It may be difficult for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for her to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you can not continue indefinitely just an ordinary, decent egg. We have hatched or go bad.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis

Pray that mankind escapes the Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Literature contributes to the reality, it is not easy to describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides, and in this respect irrigates the deserts that our lives have become.
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Long before history began we men and women gathered outside things. We have time.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a story in small letters of the same story, written in the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Nobody ever told me grief I'm so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

Nothing you have not given away will never really be yours.
C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the welfare of the victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis

A portion of all misery, so to speak, the misery of the shadow or reflection: the fact that you not only suffering, but must continue to reflect on the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in pain.
C. S. Lewis

The reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a lack of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all misery, they are, if we can share in the passion of Christ.
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