Quotes from CS Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching" than to say My heart is broken.