Quotes from C. S. Lewis

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.