Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

153. “I want God, not my idea of God.”

— C. S. Lewis

154. “I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.”

— C. S. Lewis

155. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

— C. S. Lewis

156. “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

— C. S. Lewis

157. “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

— C. S. Lewis

158. “Good and evil increase at compound interest. That’s why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.”

— C. S. Lewis

159. “I desired dragons with a profound desire.”

— C. S. Lewis

160. “The doors of hell are locked from the inside!”

— C. S. Lewis

161. “Aslan: You doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.”

— C. S. Lewis

162. “We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.”

— C. S. Lewis

163. “If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”

— C. S. Lewis

164. “Why should your heart not dance?”

— C. S. Lewis

165. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

— C. S. Lewis

166. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

— C. S. Lewis

167. “In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.”

— C. S. Lewis

168. “One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”

— C. S. Lewis

169. “The longest way round is the shortest way home.”

— C. S. Lewis

170. “Gratitude exclaims, very properly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’”

— C. S. Lewis

171. “Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”

— C. S. Lewis

172. “Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will.”

— C. S. Lewis

173. “Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends, ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’”

— C. S. Lewis

174. “The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth – the very thing the whole story has been about.”

— C. S. Lewis

175. “Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”

— C. S. Lewis

176. “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.”

— C. S. Lewis

177. “Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

— C. S. Lewis

178. “We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

— C. S. Lewis

179. “For Narnia and for Aslan!”

— C. S. Lewis

180. “I’m not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.”

— C. S. Lewis

181. “Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it’s a sign that you’ve got an extraordinary destiny – something greater than you could’ve imagined.”

— C. S. Lewis

182. “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

— C. S. Lewis

183. “Do not dare not to dare.”

— C. S. Lewis

184. “When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.”

— C. S. Lewis

185. “True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.”

— C. S. Lewis

186. “Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”

— C. S. Lewis

187. “We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.”

— C. S. Lewis

188. “If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.”

— C. S. Lewis

189. “Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

— C. S. Lewis

190. “Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.”

— C. S. Lewis

191. “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”

— C. S. Lewis

192. “You can’t go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.”

— C. S. Lewis

193. “A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”

— C. S. Lewis

194. “You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”

— C. S. Lewis

195. “God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

— C. S. Lewis

196. “Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.”

— C. S. Lewis

197. “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

— C. S. Lewis

198. “But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, “Courage, dear heart,” and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan’s, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”

— C. S. Lewis

199. “Most people don’t need to be taught, they need only to be reminded.”

— C. S. Lewis

200. “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

— C. S. Lewis