Quotes from C. S. Lewis

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.