Quotes from C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.