Famous Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”

“Do not dare not to dare.”

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”

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

“You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”

“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.”

“In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”

“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”

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

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“I seemed to hear God saying, Put down your gun and we'll talk.”

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”

“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”

“We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ”

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]”

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

Chivalry is the spirit of gallantry, bringing light to the darkness of self-interest.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

It is in the process of being worshiped that God communicates His presence to men.

We are what we believe we are.