C.S. Lewis Quotes


86 C.S. Lewis quotes:



"The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Smelling isn't everything"" said the Elephant. ""Why,"" said the Bulldog, ""if a fellow can't trust his nose, what is he to trust?"" ""Well, his brains perhaps,"" she replied mildly."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands"
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Quote of the Day Quotes
"To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Questions Quotes Quote of the Day Quotes
"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Progress Quotes
"But that would be putting the clock back,"" gasped the Governor. ""Have you no idea of progress, of development?"" ""I have seen them both in an egg, "" said Caspian. ""We call it Going Bad in Narnia."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Progress Quotes
"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes Value Quotes
"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: People Quotes
"The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"We have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females - and there is more in that than you might suppose"
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Music Quotes
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Miracles Quotes
"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Miracles Quotes
"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Man Quotes Pride Quotes
"And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Magic Quotes
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. To love is to be vulnerable."
Author: Lewis Quotes Category: Love Quotes



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