Quotes from C. S. Lewis

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ?religion? mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.