2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.