Explore Quotes by C. S. Lewis

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.