Explore Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.