C. S. Lewis Quotes And Sayings

I Gave In, And Admitted That God Was God.

The Real Problem Is Not Why Some Pious, Humble, Believing People Suffer, But Why Some Do Not.

The Long, Dull, Monotonous Years Of Middle-aged Prosperity Or Middle-aged Adversity Are Excellent Campaigning Weather For The Devil.

With The Possible Exception Of The Equator, Everything Begins Somewhere.

A Young Man Who Wishes To Remain A Sound Atheist Cannot Be Too Careful Of His Reading.

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.

Always Try To Use The Language So As To Make Quite Clear What You Mean And Make Sure Your Sentence Couldn't Mean Anything Else.

Solemnity Is Proper In Church, But Things That Are Proper In Church Are Not Necessarily Proper Outside, And Vice Versa. For Example, I Can Say A Prayer While Washing My Teeth, But That Does Not Mean I Should Wash My Teeth In Church.

Some People Write Heavily, Some Write Lightly. I Prefer The Light Approach Because I Believe There Is A Great Deal Of False Reverence About. There Is Too Much Solemnity And Intensity In Dealing With Sacred Matters; Too Much Speaking In Holy Tones.

We Must Show Our Christian Colors If We Are To Be True To Jesus Christ.

Joy Is The Serious Business Of Heaven.

Anthropomorphic Animals, When Taken Out Of Narrative Into Actual Visibility, Always Turn Into Buffoonery Or Nightmare.

It's So Much Easier To Pray For A Bore Than To Go And See One.

Let's Pray That The Human Race Never Escapes From Earth To Spread Its Iniquity Elsewhere.

Humans Are Amphibians - Half Spirit And Half Animal. As Spirits They Belong To The Eternal World, But As Animals They Inhabit Time.

I Sometimes Wonder Whether All Pleasures Are Not Substitutes For Joy.

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.

Long Before History Began We Men Have Got Together Apart From The Women And Done Things. We Had Time.

Writing Is Like A 'Lust,' Or Like 'Scratching When You Itch.' Writing Comes As A Result Of A Very Strong Impulse, And When It Does Come, I, For One, Must Get It Out.

'The Lion' All Began With A Picture Of A Faun Carrying An Umbrella And Parcels In A Snowy Wood. This Picture Had Been In My Mind Since I Was About Sixteen. Then One Day, When I Was About Forty, I Said To Myself, 'Let's Try To Make A Story About It.'

I Think That All Things, In Their Way, Reflect Heavenly Truth, The Imagination Not Least.

What We Call Man's Power Over Nature Turns Out To Be A Power Exercised By Some Men Over Other Men With Nature As Its Instrument.

There Is No Uncreated Being Except God. God Has No Opposite.

Always Prefer The Plain Direct Word To The Long, Vague One. Don't Implement Promises, But Keep Them.

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.

Education Without Values, As Useful As It Is, Seems Rather To Make Man A More Clever Devil.

The Task Of The Modern Educator Is Not To Cut Down Jungles, But To Irrigate Deserts.