Quotes from CS Lewis
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
- CS Lewis
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
- CS Lewis
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
- CS Lewis
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
- CS Lewis
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
- CS Lewis
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
- CS Lewis
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
- CS Lewis
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
- CS Lewis
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
- CS Lewis
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
- CS Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- CS Lewis
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
- CS Lewis