2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.