2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

If you do one good deed, your reward is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!

All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.