14 Quotes by C S Lewis

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical".

I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a moral. But the transmortal conditions are solely an imaginative supposal: they are not even a guess or a speculation at what may actually await us. The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world.

And now, haste, haste, haste.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all.