Quotes from CS Lewis
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
- CS Lewis
Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.
- CS Lewis
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
- CS Lewis
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- CS Lewis
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- CS Lewis
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
- CS Lewis
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
- CS Lewis
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- CS Lewis
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
- CS Lewis
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
- CS Lewis
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
- CS Lewis
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
- CS Lewis