2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex