2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.