2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!