2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.