Quotes from CS Lewis
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
- CS Lewis
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
- 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
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
- CS Lewis
Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.
- CS Lewis
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
- CS Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- CS Lewis
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
- CS Lewis
Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.
- CS Lewis
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
- CS Lewis
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
- CS Lewis
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
- CS Lewis