2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

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

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends, ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.