C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

Birthday, Strange, Fact

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Failure, Road, Failures

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, God, Gave

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

Hell, Road, Gentle

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Future, Everyone

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

Life, Respect, Daily

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

God, Ask, Nonsense

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Human, Earth, Race

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Spirit, Half

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

Fear, Felt, Grief

We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship, Naked, Bodies

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Small, Same, Whole

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

Down, Modern, Cut

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

Age, Great, Old

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis

Nothing, Away, Yours

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. Lewis

Love, Power, Through

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis

Another, Step, Saves

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

Humble, Real, Why

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Reason, Order

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Nature, Fact, Miracles

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 29, 1898

Died: November 22, 1963

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