Quotes from CS Lewis
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
- CS Lewis
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
- CS Lewis
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
- CS Lewis
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
- CS Lewis
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
- CS Lewis
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- CS Lewis
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
- CS Lewis
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
- CS Lewis
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
- CS Lewis
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
- CS Lewis
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- CS Lewis
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
- CS Lewis