Quotes from CS Lewis
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
- CS Lewis
You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!
- CS Lewis
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
- CS Lewis
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
- CS Lewis
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
- CS Lewis
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
- CS Lewis
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
- CS Lewis
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
- CS Lewis
Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.
- CS Lewis
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.
- CS Lewis
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
- CS Lewis
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
- CS Lewis