Best CS Lewis Quotes

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

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

There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Do not dare not to dare.

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

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is an opportunity for growth.

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

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.

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

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who think they can and those who think they can’t. And they’re both right.

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.

Courage, dear heart.

There is no reward offered to those who strive for a prize everyone can see.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

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

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

You can make anything into a myth just by surrounding it with silence.

The fantasy which results from intellectual abstraction is quite different from the participation in a myth.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

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

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Although I never saw it, I believe–from descriptions–that The Flora was one of the most magnificent series of children’s books ever made.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were those who thought most of the next.

You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

The one principle of hell is—I am my own.

The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

The devil is a liar, and there is no truth in him.

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when we look back, everything is different?

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

If you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

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.