2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.