2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.