2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.