2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

I came alive when I started loving you.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.