Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”

— C. S. Lewis

302. “Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

306. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

309. “Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”

— C. S. Lewis

310. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

326. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

328. “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

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329. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

331. “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

332. “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

333. “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

334. “Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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336. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

338. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

342. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

344. “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

345. “A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

347. “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

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348. “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

349. “In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.”

— C. S. Lewis

350. “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