Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.”

— C. S. Lewis

302. “You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.”

— C. S. Lewis

303. “One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

— C. S. Lewis

304. “The true Christian’s nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.”

— C. S. Lewis

305. “I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.”

— C. S. Lewis

306. “What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”

— C. S. Lewis

307. “Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”

— C. S. Lewis

308. “Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”

— C. S. Lewis

309. “If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?”

— C. S. Lewis

310. “For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.”

— C. S. Lewis

311. “The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”

— C. S. Lewis

312. “When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.”

— C. S. Lewis

313. “According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.”

— C. S. Lewis

314. “My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”

— C. S. Lewis

315. “Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”

— C. S. Lewis

316. “If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.”

— C. S. Lewis

317. “The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”

— C. S. Lewis

318. “You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.”

— C. S. Lewis

319. “There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.”

— C. S. Lewis

320. “In worship, God imparts himself to us.”

— C. S. Lewis

321. “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”

— C. S. Lewis

322. “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.”

— C. S. Lewis

323. “Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.”

— C. S. Lewis

324. “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”

— C. S. Lewis

325. “Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.”

— C. S. Lewis

326. “God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn’t have to take us in the line. You’re as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He’d ever created.”

— C. S. Lewis

327. “If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his ‘conversion’ was largely imaginary.”

— C. S. Lewis

328. “Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”

— C. S. Lewis

329. “Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.”

— C. S. Lewis

330. “A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.”

— C. S. Lewis

331. “Love is the great conqueror of lust.”

— C. S. Lewis

332. “Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.”

— C. S. Lewis

333. “As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.”

— C. S. Lewis

334. “Autumn is really the best of the seasons.”

— C. S. Lewis

335. “A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.”

— C. S. Lewis

336. “Agnostics talk cheerfully of man’s search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for the cat.”

— C. S. Lewis

337. “Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.”

— C. S. Lewis

338. “I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.”

— C. S. Lewis

339. “The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.”

— C. S. Lewis

340. “Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.”

— C. S. Lewis

341. “Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.”

— C. S. Lewis

342. “With my mother’s death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.”

— C. S. Lewis

343. “Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can’t see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.”

— C. S. Lewis

344. “Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’”

— C. S. Lewis

345. “Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.”

— C. S. Lewis

346. “The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!”

— C. S. Lewis

347. “You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”

— C. S. Lewis

348. “Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”

— C. S. Lewis

349. “Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.”

— C. S. Lewis

350. “Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.”

— C. S. Lewis