C S Lewis Quotes

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

"Trust is the first step to love."

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

"Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."

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

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken'."

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will get neither comfort nor truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive."

"We are what we believe we are."

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."

"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."

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'"

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God."

"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other sort of slacker."

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

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

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

"Joy is distinct from pleasure in that it has the character of an unsatisfied desire, yet it is more desirable than any other satisfaction."

"Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer."

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."

"The tragedy of living is that we are all trapped in our own minds; to be released from the dungeon of self is the beginning of true freedom."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

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