Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.”

— C. S. Lewis

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “On the back of Satan’s neck is a nail scarred footprint.”

— C. S. Lewis

206. “Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”

— C. S. Lewis

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207. “History is a story written by the finger of God.”

— C. S. Lewis

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208. “Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.”

— C. S. Lewis

209. “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.”

— C. S. Lewis

210. “Prayer does not change God; it changes me.”

— C. S. Lewis

211. “Always winter but never Christmas.”

— C. S. Lewis

212. “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”

— C. S. Lewis

213. “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.”

— C. S. Lewis

214. “God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.”

— C. S. Lewis

215. “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

— C. S. Lewis

216. “The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.”

— C. S. Lewis

217. “Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

219. “Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.”

— C. S. Lewis

220. “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”

— C. S. Lewis

221. “Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.”

— C. S. Lewis

222. “It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”

— C. S. Lewis

223. “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

— C. S. Lewis

224. “Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

— C. S. Lewis

225. “We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”

— C. S. Lewis

226. “But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”

— C. S. Lewis

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227. “To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it – made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”

— C. S. Lewis

228. “The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.”

— C. S. Lewis

229. “Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.”

— C. S. Lewis

230. “We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.”

— C. S. Lewis

231. “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”

— C. S. Lewis

232. “The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’”

— C. S. Lewis

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233. “Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.”

— C. S. Lewis

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234. “Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.”

— C. S. Lewis

235. “A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.”

— C. S. Lewis

236. “Christ says, ‘Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.’”

— C. S. Lewis

237. “Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”

— C. S. Lewis

238. “In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”

— C. S. Lewis

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239. “Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.”

— C. S. Lewis

240. “It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”

— C. S. Lewis

241. “Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.”

— C. S. Lewis

242. “Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”

— C. S. Lewis

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243. “Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.”

— C. S. Lewis

244. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

— C. S. Lewis

245. “I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

— C. S. Lewis

246. “If you don’t listen to theology, that won’t mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.”

— C. S. Lewis

247. “We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.”

— C. S. Lewis

248. “Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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250. “A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”

— C. S. Lewis