2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.