2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

I pray because I can't help myself...

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.