Quotes from CS Lewis
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation
- CS Lewis
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them
- CS Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- CS Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
- CS Lewis
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
- CS Lewis
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result
- CS Lewis
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
- CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- CS Lewis
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
- CS Lewis
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- CS Lewis
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
- CS Lewis
Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
- CS Lewis