2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Selfishness has never been admired.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.