2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)...

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.