C. S. Lewis Quotes

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
-C. S. Lewis

"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike."
-C. S. Lewis

"A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered."
-C. S. Lewis

"I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen."
-C. S. Lewis

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
-C. S. Lewis

"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 in Writing quotes.

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."
-C. S. Lewis

"Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm."
-C. S. Lewis

"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."
-C. S. Lewis

"Whatever you do, He [God] will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed Him."
-C. S. Lewis

"No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"
-C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
-C. S. Lewis

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'"
-C. S. Lewis

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
-C. S. Lewis

"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
-C. S. Lewis

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
-C. S. Lewis

"Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense."
-C. S. Lewis

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
-C. S. Lewis

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
-C. S. Lewis

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
-C. S. Lewis

"When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring."
-C. S. Lewis

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...."
-C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."
-C. S. Lewis

"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
-C. S. Lewis

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
-C. S. Lewis

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."
-C. S. Lewis