2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.' Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.