2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Why should your heart not dance?