Quotes from CS Lewis
Only real risk passes the reality of faith.
- CS Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
- CS Lewis
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
- CS Lewis
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
- CS Lewis
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
- CS Lewis
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
- CS Lewis
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.
- CS Lewis
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.
- CS Lewis
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- CS Lewis
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
- CS Lewis
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
- CS Lewis
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
- CS Lewis