2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.