2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.