2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Most people don’t need to be taught, they need only to be reminded.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can’t see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, “liked to see young people enjoying themselves” and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, “a good time was had by all.”

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.

With my mother’s death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

The true Christian’s nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us – an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof ‘God did it’ and ‘I did it’ are both true descriptions.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now.