2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.