Quotes from CS Lewis
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
- CS Lewis
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.
- CS Lewis
God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
- CS Lewis
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- CS Lewis
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
- CS Lewis
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
- CS Lewis
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
- CS Lewis
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
- CS Lewis
The way for a person to develop a style is to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.
- CS Lewis
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
- CS Lewis
It is not enough to want to get rid of one's sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
- CS Lewis
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
- CS Lewis