2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man’s search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for the cat.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time – for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I pray because I can’t help myself...

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.

Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.

You’ll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

The full acting out of the self’s surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.