Quotes from CS Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.