Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2024 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. “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

203. “Always winter but never Christmas.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

209. “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

210. “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

218. “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

219. “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

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 “Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch.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

— C. S. Lewis

221. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

223. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

229. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

231. “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

232. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

234. “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

235. “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

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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

240. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

245. “Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.”

— C. S. Lewis

246. “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

247. “Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

249. “Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.”

— C. S. Lewis

250. “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

— C. S. Lewis