Quotes from CS Lewis

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.