2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous