Quotes from C. S. Lewis

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'