2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.