2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.