C. S. Lewis Quotes

Irish - Author November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963 Read full biography

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. - C. S. Lewis

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. C. S. Lewis

Value, Slavery, Tyranny, Obedience, Very

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis

Decision, Roads, World, Road, Enough

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, Daily Life, Become

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis

Success, Failure, Achievement, Road

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Tea, Me, Enough, Book, Long

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis

Change, Bird, Fly, Present, You, Learn

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

Loneliness, Yourself, Long, You, Look

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

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

Teacher, Down, Task, Modern, Cut

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

Business, Joy, Serious, Heaven

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

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

Fear, Grief, Me, Like, Felt, Ever

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis

Courage, Virtue, Testing, Point, Virtues

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. - C. S. Lewis

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis

Colors, Christian, True, Jesus Christ

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

Sun, Believe, Saint Patrick's Day, See

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis

True, Infinite, Important, Only, False

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

Education, Nature, God, Self, You, Place

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

Friendship, Art, Value, Survival, Like

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Affection, Whatever

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

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

Friendship, Naked, Will, Personalities

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis

Man, Progress, Road, Walking, Doing, You

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

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

Wisdom, You, Nothing, Will, Away, Yours

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

Inspirational, Small, Story, World, See

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. C. S. Lewis

Promises, Long, Always, Vague, Keep

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

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

Believe, Brainy

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

Religion, You, Earth, Heaven, Will, Aim

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

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

Man, Reading, Young, Young Man, Wishes

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis

Experience, Myself, World, Desire, Find

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