C.S. Lewis, the renowned author and theologian, has inspired countless readers with his profound understanding of the human experience. In this collection of his most memorable quotes, we explore themes of love, faith, and the complexities of life. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, reflection, or a deeper understanding of life, Lewis’ words provide timeless wisdom that transcends generations. Join us as we explore his brilliant ideas and gain inspiration for your own journey.
Quotes
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
- “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
- “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
- “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
- “Courage, dear heart.”
- “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
- “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
- “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
- “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
- “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
- “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.”
- “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
- “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
- “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?”
- “You can make anything by writing.”
- “No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”
- “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
- “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.”
- “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
- “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
- “Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
- “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
- “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
- “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
- “Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.”
- “There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
- “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
- “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
- “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
- “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
- “We do not want merely to see beauty…we want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see.”
- “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
- “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original.”
- “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
- “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
- “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
- “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only—and that is to support the ultimate career.”
- “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.'”
- “We must lay before Him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”
- “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
- “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
- “I think that God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.”
- “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”
- “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.”
- “Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
- “The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
- “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”
- “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
- “The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important.”
- “You can’t know, you can only believe—or not.”
- “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
- “A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
- “Look for yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
- “It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”
- “God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.”
- “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
- “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.”
- “We are far too easily pleased.”
- “A Christian is not one who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up.”
- “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
- “No one is ever told what would have happened.”
- “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
- “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain.”
- “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
- “God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
- “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
- “He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
- “If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
- “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
- “I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
- “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
- “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
- “You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”
- “Hell is a state of mind.”
- “We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven.”
- “All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
- “For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
- “What you believe matters less than what your faith makes of you.”
- “Faith is not a substitute for reason but a higher order of reasoning.”
- “Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods.”
- “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.’”
- “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
- “Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”
- “A man is what he does with his thoughts.”
- “The process of living seems to consist of coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like banalities.”
- “Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
- “It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.”
- “To be born into this world is to be exposed to the greatest dangers.”
- “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
- “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.”
- “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
- “Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”
- “God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.”
- “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him.”
- “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did.”
- “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
- “You can make anything by writing.”
- “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world.”
- “You are never too old to set another goal.”
- “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that.”
- “God knows our situation.”
- “I believe in God like I believe in the sun.”
- “The glory of God, and, as our only means to glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.”
- “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
- “Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.”
- “In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds.”
- “The difference between the noble and the merely nice is obvious.”
- “Hell begins with a grumbling mood.”
- “Every Christian is to become a little Christ.”
- “Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed.”
- “God gives what He has, not what He hasn’t.”
- “There is no such thing as ordinary people.”
- “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God.”
- “There are only two kinds of people in the end.”
- “A young atheist cannot be too careful of what he reads.”
- “A book is a pleasure that endures longer than any.”
- “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
- “A great myth can be recognized as true by its power.”
- “A man who is able to understand everything knows nothing.”
- “Always prefer the false promises of an ideal world over the pragmatic experience of everyday life.”
- “A mist of confusion clouds the minds of the reckless.”
- “A man may be said to know when he knows his understanding.”
- “A lion’s roar is nothing compared to the whisper of truth.”
- “A man of reason never underestimates the power of belief.”
- “Belief does not rest on proof but on conviction.”
- “Before anyone can truly lead, they must first be willing to follow.”
- “Choices are the puzzle pieces of our fate.”
- “Contentment lies in acknowledging both the highs and the lows.”
- “Curiosity is the essence of discovery.”
- “Deep thoughts fuel a man’s reflection.”
- “Denial is the greatest enemy of understanding.”
- “Destiny shapes the steps we take.”
- “Disbelief, like belief, is a function of perspective.”
- “Doubt is a servant of both knowledge and uncertainty.”
- “Dreams are visions born of our deepest desires.”
- “Embrace what you know; seek what you don’t.”
- “Every man must one day account for the truths he knew and those he avoided.”
- “Failure is a marker of learning.”
- “Faith is greater than the absence of evidence.”
- “Fear makes the coward run from what courage embraces.”
- “Freedom is not the absence of restraint, but the triumph over chains.”
- “Glory is a light too bright to be ignored.”
- “God’s love is the foundation of every good deed.”
- “He who doubts his steps walks a winding road.”
- “Hope fuels our quest for something better.”
- “Humility teaches us what pride hides.”
- “Imagination fuels the heart of discovery.”
- “In every story, there’s a grain of truth.”
- “Injustice cannot reign forever.”
- “Joy is found in serving others.”
- “Kindness makes the world bearable.”
- “Knowledge without application is vanity.”
- “Leaders inspire by example.”
- “Love is a verb.”
- “Life is the ultimate adventure.”
- “Light pierces the darkness in unexpected ways.”
- “Mercy is the balm of the soul.”
- “Motivation comes from within.”
- “Nature’s wisdom reveals the truth.”
- “Never underestimate the power of a quiet mind.”
- “No dream is too big if your faith is strong.”
- “Observation brings clarity.”
- “Optimism is the shield against despair.”
- “Patience is a reflection of inner peace.”
- “Pride precedes a fall.”
- “Quiet reflection opens the door to wisdom.”
- “Rest is the reward of the diligent.”
- “Sacrifice leads to victory.”
- “Silence often speaks louder than words.”
- “Strength is found in the soul.”
- “Success is built on the foundation of perseverance.”
- “The future belongs to those who believe in it.”
- “The heart speaks a language words cannot capture.”
- “Time heals even the deepest wounds.”
- “Trust is earned through action.”
- “Understanding is the key to compassion.”
- “Valor is born from conviction.”
- “Visionaries shape the future.”
- “Wisdom comes with age but also with experience.”
- “Worry steals today’s peace.”
- “You can rise above any storm.”
- “Your story is still being written.”
- “Faith is stronger than fear.”
- “Purpose fuels our existence.”
- “Courage is the greatest expression of faith.”
- “Believe in the power of love.”
- “Patience is more than waiting; it’s trusting.”
- “The journey matters more than the destination.”
- “Every new beginning comes from change.”
- “The soul’s strength is infinite.”
- “Honesty leads to peace.”
- “Hope rises from despair.”
- “Character is built in the face of adversity.”
- “True joy is found in giving.”
- “Adversity reveals character.”
- “Love is the light in life’s darkest moments.”
