Famous Quotes / C. S. Lewis
89 Quotations by C. S. Lewis
- 41. It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There ...
- 42. It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Hu ...
- 43. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to f ...
- 44. It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- 45. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- 46. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping ...
- 47. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w ...
- 48. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
- 49. Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...
- 50. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies -- th ...
- 51. No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a ma ...
- 52. No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
- 53. No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
- 54. No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
- 55. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- 56. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi ...
- 57. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer ...
- 58. Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common ...
- 59. Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are affl ...
- 60. Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion ...