C. S. Lewis Quotes

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:happiness God history

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth morality

“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 thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth religion despair comfort

“the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:time future eternity

“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:time future

“Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:women men

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:women

“Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:knowledge education

“Your real, new self . . . will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self faith

“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'”

― C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

topic:self friendship

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