C.s. Lewis Quotes and Sayings

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C.S. Lewis

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What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring. C.S. Lewis

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. C.S. Lewis

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis

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there are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis

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Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine. C.S. Lewis

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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. C.S. Lewis

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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. C.S. Lewis

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis

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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not. C.S. Lewis

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I was not born to be free, I was born to adore and obey. C.S. Lewis

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

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Love is the great conqueror of lust. C.S. Lewis

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Any amount ofÂ theologyÂ can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. C.S. Lewis

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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. C.S. Lewis

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The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. C.S. Lewis

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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. C.S. Lewis

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All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. C.S. Lewis

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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. C.S. Lewis

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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. C.S. Lewis

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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C.S. Lewis

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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. C.S. Lewis

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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. C.S. Lewis

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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

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Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. C.S. Lewis

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

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My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise. C.S. Lewis

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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. C.S. Lewis

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It is always the novice who exaggerates. C.S. Lewis

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I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. C.S. Lewis

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C.s. Lewis Sayings and Quotes