2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.