C.S. Lewis Quotes
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
We are what we believe we are.
Love is not affectionate feeling but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
You can never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
You can make anything by writing.
No one ever told me grief felt so like fear.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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.
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.
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.
Love is not something that can be explained; it can only be experienced.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
You can never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?
You can make anything by writing.
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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.
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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.
Courage, dear heart.
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.
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Nothing you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
It’s human nature to be curious about people; to be interested in their lives is a harmless and often entertaining way to satisfy that curiosity.