Quotes from CS Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- CS Lewis
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
- CS Lewis
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
- CS Lewis
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
- CS Lewis
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
- CS Lewis
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
- CS Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
- CS Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
- CS Lewis
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
- CS Lewis
The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- CS Lewis
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
- CS Lewis
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
- CS Lewis