C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

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

Roads, Decision, Road, World, You, Long

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, Book, You, Long

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

Success, Failure, Achievement, Road

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, Obedience, Tyranny, Rule

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

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, Look, You, Long

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, True, Christian, Jesus Christ

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, Virtues, Point

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, Walking, Road, Progress, You, Back

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

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

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

Business, Joy, Serious, Heaven

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

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, You, Bad, Present

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

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

Believe, Brainy

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, Important, Infinite, Only, False

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

Myself, Experience, World, Find, Desire

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, Me, Grief, Like, Felt, Ever

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, Aim, Heaven, Earth, Will

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, Atheist, Wishes, Young

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good, Tyranny, May, Most, Victims

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, See, I Believe, Only

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

Shadow, Day, Live, Reflection, Grief

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis

Good, History, People, Good Things, Bad

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, Philosophy, Like

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, World, Story, See

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' C. S. Lewis

God, People, Way, Say, Done, Will

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