Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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154. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

156. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

159. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

163. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

168. “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

169. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

171. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

177. “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

178. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

180. “For Narnia and for Aslan!”

— C. S. Lewis

181. “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

182. “Why should your heart not dance?”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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191. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

193. “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

194. “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

195. “Do not dare not to dare.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

197. “No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”

— C. S. Lewis

198. “Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

200. “I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.”

— C. S. Lewis