Quotes from C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

To love is to be vulnerable.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.