Quotes by C.S. Lewis
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
We are what we believe we are.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man a more clever devil.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
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.
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.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
We are what we believe we are.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.