Quotes from C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.