C.S. Lewis
sitemanagerCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C.S. Lewis
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
C.S. Lewis
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue…
C.S. Lewis
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
C.S. Lewis
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
C.S. Lewis
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state…
C.S. Lewis
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C.S. Lewis
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
C.S. Lewis
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
C.S. Lewis
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to…
C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C.S. Lewis
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C.S. Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
C.S. Lewis
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C.S. Lewis
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to…
C.S. Lewis
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns…
C.S. Lewis
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
C.S. Lewis
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. Lewis
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point…
C.S. Lewis
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
C.S. Lewis
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C.S. Lewis
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
C.S. Lewis
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
C.S. Lewis
God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
C.S. Lewis
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
C.S. Lewis
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C.S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful…
C.S. Lewis
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…
C.S. Lewis
The absent are easily refuted.
C.S. Lewis
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
C. S. Lewis
We are what we believe we are.
C.S. Lewis
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C.S. Lewis
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.