2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.