2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.