Famous C.S. Lewis quotes
C.S. Lewis was an English novelist, lecturer, poet, best known for his 'Chronicles of Narnia' fantasy series and his pro-Christian texts. Has inspired millions for generations and his writings have been translated into 30 languages, selling millions of copies.
We’ve compiled in this page some of famous C.S. Lewis quotes.
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
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
–C.S. Lewis
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
–C.S. Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
–C.S. Lewis
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
–C.S. Lewis
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
–C.S. Lewis
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
–C.S. Lewis
All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
–C.S. Lewis
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
–C.S. Lewis
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
–C.S. Lewis
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
–C.S. Lewis
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
–C.S. Lewis
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
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
–C.S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
–C.S. Lewis
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
–C.S. Lewis
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
–C.S. Lewis
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
–C.S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
–C.S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
–C.S. Lewis
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
–C.S. Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
–C.S. Lewis
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
–C.S. Lewis
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
–C.S. Lewis
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
–C.S. Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
–C.S. Lewis
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
–C.S. Lewis
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
–C.S. Lewis
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.
–C.S. Lewis
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
–C.S. Lewis
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
–C.S. Lewis
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
–C.S. Lewis
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
–C.S. Lewis
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.
–C.S. Lewis
I was with book, as a woman is with child.
–C.S. Lewis
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
–C.S. Lewis
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
–C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
–C.S. Lewis
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
–C.S. Lewis
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
–C.S. Lewis
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
–C.S. Lewis
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
–C.S. Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
–C.S. Lewis
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
–C.S. Lewis
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
–C.S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
–C.S. Lewis
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
–C.S. Lewis
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
–C.S. Lewis
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