2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better...

This moment contains all moments.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again.

I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.