Clive Staples Lewis was a popular English writer and he is popularly known for writing movies like Narnia! He was well educated and has a different perception of his religion and life. So here we have collected some of the best Quotes by CS Lewis that you would be happy to read!
CS Lewis Quotes
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
“Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“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 back soonest is the most progressive.”
“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
Inspirational CS Lewis Quotes
“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.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
“Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
“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 must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.”
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
“To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.”
“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.”
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
Other Famous CS Lewis Quotes
“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.”
“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try to get there at all. It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it.”
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.”
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be.”
“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.”
“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”
“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.”
“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”
“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
“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, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”