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C S Lewis Quotes
A man can no more diminish Gods 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. - C S Lewis Quotes
A man can no more diminish Gods 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. - C S Lewis Quotes
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 than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. - C S Lewis Quotes
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C S Lewis Quotes
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C S Lewis Quotes
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C S Lewis Quotes
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. - C S Lewis Quotes
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. - C S Lewis Quotes
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C S Lewis Quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. - C S Lewis Quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C S Lewis Quotes
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. - C S Lewis Quotes
Dont use words too big for the subject. Dont say infinitely when you mean very ; otherwise youll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C S Lewis Quotes
Dont use words too big for the subject. Dont say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise youll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C S Lewis Quotes
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C S Lewis Quotes
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. - C S Lewis Quotes
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - C S Lewis Quotes
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. - C S Lewis Quotes
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. - C S Lewis Quotes
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C S Lewis Quotes
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. - C S Lewis Quotes
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis Quotes
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C S Lewis Quotes
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C S Lewis Quotes
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C S Lewis Quotes
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. - C S Lewis Quotes
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. - C S Lewis Quotes
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. - C S Lewis Quotes
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. - C S Lewis Quotes
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. - C S Lewis Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Bach Cell Christian Darkness Eating Glory Gods
Higher Listening Lunatic Lying More Plato Preparing
Pride Reading Sleep Standards State Than Walls
Wife With Word Worship
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