2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.