2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?