2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.