C.S. Lewis Quotes

"Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me"

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

"The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything."

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"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.''"

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

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

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

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

"We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with"

"True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

"There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."