2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.