C. S. Lewis

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

C. S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

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.

C.S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C.S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

C.S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis

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

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

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 are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis

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.

C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

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.'

C. S. Lewis

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

C. S. Lewis