2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.