2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

If you thirst you may drink.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.