2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.