2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.