2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.