2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.