C. S. Lewis Quotes

“some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Lion

topic:reading age

“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.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:loneliness despair

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:books lie

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:war forgiveness

“All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:virtue humility

“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:action feeling

“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:action feeling

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:peace

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