2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.