94 C.S. Lewis Quotes

Clive Staples Lewis, more popularly known as C. S. Lewis was a popular British writer who authored over 30 books during his lifetime. Here are the best C.S. Lewis Quotes to inspire and motivate you.

  C.S. Lewis Quotes

1. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

2. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

3. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

4. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C.S. Lewis

5. “Things never happen the same way twice.” – C.S. Lewis
6. “Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.” – C.S. Lewis
7. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
8. “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
9. “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
10. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis
11. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
12. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis
13. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” – C.S. Lewis
15. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’“ – C.S. Lewis
17. “God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” – C.S. Lewis
18. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
19. “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” – C.S. Lewis
20. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
21. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C.S. Lewis
22. “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
23. “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
24. “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis
25. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C.S. Lewis
26. “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?” – C.S. Lewis
27. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
28. “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” – C.S. Lewis
29. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis
30. “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” – C.S. Lewis
31. “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…” – C.S. Lewis
32. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis
33. “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
34. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
35. “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” – C.S. Lewis
36. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C.S. Lewis
37. “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
38. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
39. “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” – C.S. Lewis
40. “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
41. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
42. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” – C.S. Lewis
44. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – C.S. Lewis
45. “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
46. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “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
48. “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis
49. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” – C.S. Lewis
50. “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.” – C.S. Lewis
51. “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.” – C.S. Lewis
52. “If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” – C.S. Lewis
53. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” – C.S. Lewis
54. “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis
55. “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” – C.S. Lewis
56. “It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.” – C.S. Lewis
57. “Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.” – C.S. Lewis
59. “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” – C.S. Lewis
60. “Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” – C.S. Lewis
61. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
62. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
63. “Do not dare not to dare.” – C.S. Lewis
64. “You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis
65. “We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis
66. “Courage, dear heart.” – C.S. Lewis
67. “You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words.” – C.S. Lewis
68. “But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.” – C.S. Lewis
69. “Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” – C.S. Lewis
70. “You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.” – C.S. Lewis
71. “When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.” – C.S. Lewis
72. “I was with book, as a woman is with child.” – C.S. Lewis
73. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” – C.S. Lewis
74. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
75. “Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” – C.S. Lewis
76. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.” – C.S. Lewis
77. “It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.” – C.S. Lewis
78. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis
79. “I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.” – C.S. Lewis
80. “God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop.” – C.S. Lewis
81. “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
82. “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
83. “Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.” – C.S. Lewis
84. “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” – C.S. Lewis
85. “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
86. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” – C.S. Lewis
87. “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” – C.S. Lewis
88. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C.S. Lewis
89. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” – C.S. Lewis
90. “Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.” – C.S. Lewis
91. “People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.” – C.S. Lewis
92. “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
93. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
94. “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” – C.S. Lewis