2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.

Virtue – even attempted virtue – brings light; indulgence brings fog.

Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’

Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.

Narnia! It’s all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia – in our world they usually don’t talk at all. – The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ.