2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals