Quotes from CS Lewis
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
- CS Lewis
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
- CS Lewis
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
- CS Lewis
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
- CS Lewis
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
- CS Lewis
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
- CS Lewis
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
- CS Lewis
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
- CS Lewis
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
- CS Lewis
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
- CS Lewis
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.
- CS Lewis
Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.
- CS Lewis