Quotes from CS Lewis
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
- CS Lewis
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
- CS Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- CS Lewis
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
- CS Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- CS Lewis
If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
- CS Lewis
There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.
- CS Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- CS Lewis
Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centeredness.
- CS Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- CS Lewis
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
- CS Lewis
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
- CS Lewis