C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis

Education, Man, Values, Devil, Clever

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, Book, Tea, Me, You, Long

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, Long, Run

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, Be True, Show

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, Road, World, 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

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

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

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, Everything

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, Desire, Find

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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

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

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

Business, Joy, Heaven, Serious

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, Ever, Felt

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

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

Brainy, Believe

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

Reflection, Grief, Shadow, Day, Live

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

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

Faith, God, Gave, Admitted

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, Responsible

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

Life, Happiness, God, Thoughts, Own

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. C. S. Lewis

Adversity, Weather, Devil, Long, Years

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, Point, Testing, Virtues

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, Present, Bad

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, Heaven, You, Earth, Aim, Will

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

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, Done, Say, Way, Right

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

History, World, Thought, Think, You

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C. S. Lewis

Light, Eyes, Universe, Dark, Know, Never

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