C. S. Lewis Quotes
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–54, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His works entered the public domain in 2014 in countries where copyright expires 50 years after the death of the creator, such as Canada.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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