Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

153. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

156. “Why should your heart not dance?”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

160. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

162. “Obedience is the key that opens every door.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

165. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— 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. “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

172. “Do not dare not to dare.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

174. “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

175. “For Narnia and for Aslan!”

— C. S. Lewis

176. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— 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. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

184. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

186. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

188. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

195. “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

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

— 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. “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.”

— C. S. Lewis

199. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis