2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.