2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Autumn is really the best of the seasons.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That’s why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Enemy-occupied territory – that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.