C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

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.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.