2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.