C.S. Lewis – the writer and author who has been able to put into focus what means the most to us in this life, in the best way all can understand. One of the greats and worthy to read all he put to paper.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C.S. Lewis
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C.S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C.S. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C.S. Lewis
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C.S. Lewis
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C.S. Lewis
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. Lewis
The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C.S. Lewis
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.”
C.S. Lewis
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C.S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis