Quotes from CS Lewis
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
- CS Lewis
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
- CS Lewis
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
- CS Lewis
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
- CS Lewis
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
- CS Lewis
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
- CS Lewis
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.
- CS Lewis
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
- CS Lewis
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
- CS Lewis
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
- CS Lewis
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
- CS Lewis
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
- CS Lewis