Quotes from CS Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- CS Lewis
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
- CS Lewis
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.
- CS Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
- CS Lewis
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
- CS Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- CS Lewis
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
- CS Lewis
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
- CS Lewis
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
- CS Lewis
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
- CS Lewis
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
- CS Lewis
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
- CS Lewis