2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.