2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.