Quotes from CS Lewis
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it
- CS Lewis
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
- CS Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
- CS Lewis
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
- CS Lewis
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world
- CS Lewis
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
- CS Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- CS Lewis
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
- CS Lewis
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
- CS Lewis
Though our feelings come and go, GodÃ
- CS Lewis
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- CS Lewis
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
- CS Lewis