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C. S. Lewis Quotes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

– C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

– C. S. Lewis

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

– C. S. Lewis

What I call my ‘self’ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

– C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

– C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

– C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

– C. S. Lewis

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

– C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

– C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

– C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

– C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

– C. S. Lewis

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

– C. S. Lewis

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

– C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

– C. S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

– C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

– C. S. Lewis

‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’

– C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

– C. S. Lewis

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

– C. S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

– C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

– C. S. Lewis

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