2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Aujourd'hui il n'y a plus de marre. Ce monde s'est consumé, c'est comme s'il n'avait jamais existé. Que les descendants d'Adam et Ève sachent en tirer la leçon'' (...) ''Qui sait si l'un des vôtres ne découvrira pas lui aussi un secret aussi nuisible que le Mot Déplorable et ne l'utilisera pas pour détruire tous les êtres vivants?

Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.