Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2023 Update)

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

— C. S. Lewis

2. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

— C. S. Lewis

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3. “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”

— C. S. Lewis

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4. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

— C. S. Lewis

5. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

6. “We are what we believe we are.”

— C. S. Lewis

7. “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

8. “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”

— C. S. Lewis

9. “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.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

11. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...”

— C. S. Lewis

12. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

— C. S. Lewis

13. “You can make anything by writing.”

— C. S. Lewis

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14. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

15. “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

— C. S. Lewis

16. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”

— C. S. Lewis

17. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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19. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

20. “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

— C. S. Lewis

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21. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”

— C. S. Lewis

22. “God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.”

— C. S. Lewis

23. “I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”

— C. S. Lewis

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24. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

— C. S. Lewis

25. “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”

— C. S. Lewis

26. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

28. “The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”

— C. S. Lewis

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29. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”

— C. S. Lewis

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30. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

32. “No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”

— C. S. Lewis

33. “When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”

— C. S. Lewis

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34. “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

35. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

36. “It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”

— C. S. Lewis

37. “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”

— C. S. Lewis

38. “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”

— C. S. Lewis

39. “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”

— C. S. Lewis

40. “If one could run without getting tired I don’t think one would often want to do anything else.”

— C. S. Lewis

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41. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

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42. “And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.”

— C. S. Lewis

43. “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

— C. S. Lewis

44. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”

— C. S. Lewis

45. “If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

— C. S. Lewis

46. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

— C. S. Lewis

47. “Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

50. “You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.”

— C. S. Lewis