2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past....

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.