2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.