2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.