2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.