2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’

When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’

Christ says, ‘Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.’

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

If one could run without getting tired I don’t think one would often want to do anything else.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.