2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.