Quotes from C. S. Lewis

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.