Explore Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You cannot make men good by law.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His _x000D_ being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

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.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

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.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.