Quotes from CS Lewis
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
- CS Lewis
If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.
- CS Lewis
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.
- CS Lewis
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- CS Lewis
Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.
- CS Lewis
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- CS Lewis
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
- CS Lewis
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
- CS Lewis
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
- CS Lewis
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
- CS Lewis
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
- CS Lewis
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
- CS Lewis