Top 500 C. S. Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”

— C. S. Lewis

352. “Selfishness has never been admired.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

354. “Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

358. “Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

— C. S. Lewis

359. “I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

— C. S. Lewis

360. “You’ll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.”

— C. S. Lewis

361. “Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.”

— C. S. Lewis

362. “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”

— C. S. Lewis

363. “The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don’t forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

365. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

367. “In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person’s place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

369. “In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.”

— C. S. Lewis

370. “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

371. “Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.”

— C. S. Lewis

372. “At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.”

— C. S. Lewis

373. “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

374. “And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.”

— C. S. Lewis

375. “Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.”

— C. S. Lewis

376. “If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now.”

— C. S. Lewis

377. “Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.”

— C. S. Lewis

378. “It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

— C. S. Lewis

379. “It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.”

— C. S. Lewis

380. “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”

— C. S. Lewis

381. “Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly – are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”

— C. S. Lewis

382. “Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

— C. S. Lewis

383. “Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

— C. S. Lewis

384. “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”

— C. S. Lewis

385. “Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory.”

— C. S. Lewis

386. “Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.”

— C. S. Lewis

387. “Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”

— C. S. Lewis

388. “In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”

— C. S. Lewis

389. “God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”

— C. S. Lewis

390. “Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

— C. S. Lewis

391. “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”

— C. S. Lewis

392. “There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

— C. S. Lewis

393. “On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.”

— C. S. Lewis

394. “The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.”

— C. S. Lewis

395. “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ.”

— C. S. Lewis

396. “In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.”

— C. S. Lewis

397. “The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”

— C. S. Lewis

398. “Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”

— C. S. Lewis

399. “I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.”

— C. S. Lewis

400. “The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.”

— C. S. Lewis