2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.