Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

303. “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

304. “We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

307. “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

313. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

315. “If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

321. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

325. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

327. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

330. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

332. “God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

334. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

336. “Virtue – even attempted virtue – brings light; indulgence brings fog.”

— C. S. Lewis

337. “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

338. “Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...”

— C. S. Lewis

339. “Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.”

— C. S. Lewis

340. “A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.”

— C. S. Lewis

341. “I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

— C. S. Lewis

342. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”

— C. S. Lewis

343. “Selfishness has never been admired.”

— C. S. Lewis

344. “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

345. “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

346. “Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

348. “Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

— C. S. Lewis

349. “To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.”

— C. S. Lewis

350. “A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”

— C. S. Lewis