2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

I don't want to hold you hand!

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.