C. S. Lewis Quotes:
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LEWIS
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LEWIS
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LEWIS
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. LEWIS
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. LEWIS
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. LEWIS
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LEWIS
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. LEWIS
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. LEWIS
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. LEWIS
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LEWIS
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. LEWIS