2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.