Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

303. “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”

— C. S. Lewis

304. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

313. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

319. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

321. “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

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

— 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. “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

325. “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

326. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

328. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

331. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

339. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

341. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

346. “The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”

— C. S. Lewis

347. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis