Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

— C. S. Lewis

102. “Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.”

— C. S. Lewis

103. “Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.”

— C. S. Lewis

104. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

— C. S. Lewis

105. “If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because 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

106. “Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.”

— C. S. Lewis

107. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

— C. S. Lewis

108. “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

— C. S. Lewis

109. “If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”

— C. S. Lewis

110. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

— C. S. Lewis

111. “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

— C. S. Lewis

112. “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

— C. S. Lewis

113. “I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”

— C. S. Lewis

114. “Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”

— C. S. Lewis

115. “Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.”

— C. S. Lewis

116. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’”

— C. S. Lewis

117. “Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”

— C. S. Lewis

118. “Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”

— C. S. Lewis

119. “If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

— C. S. Lewis

120. “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.”

— C. S. Lewis

121. “All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

— C. S. Lewis

122. “The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”

— C. S. Lewis

123. “The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.”

— C. S. Lewis

124. “Freedom always comes with a price.”

— C. S. Lewis

125. “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.”

— C. S. Lewis

126. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.”

— C. S. Lewis

127. “I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”

— C. S. Lewis

128. “God loves us NOT because we’re lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

130. “The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”

— C. S. Lewis

131. “But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”

— C. S. Lewis

132. “Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.”

— C. S. Lewis

133. “God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”

— C. S. Lewis

134. “Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.”

— C. S. Lewis

135. “Further up and further in!”

— C. S. Lewis

136. “Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!”

— C. S. Lewis

137. “Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

138. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.”

— C. S. Lewis

139. “Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.”

— C. S. Lewis

140. “Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”

— C. S. Lewis

141. “You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.”

— C. S. Lewis

142. “Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.”

— C. S. Lewis

143. “The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.”

— C. S. Lewis

144. “Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.”

— C. S. Lewis

145. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.”

— C. S. Lewis

146. “If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it’s not so bad.”

— C. S. Lewis

147. “I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.”

— C. S. Lewis

148. “People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.”

— C. S. Lewis

149. “Enemy-occupied territory – that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.”

— C. S. Lewis

150. “Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”

— C. S. Lewis