FastSaying

Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.


C.S. Lewis

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Je...
C.S. LEWIS Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing ...
C.S. LEWIS But what would have been the good?"
Aslan said nothing.
"You mean," said Lucy rather fai...
C.S. LEWIS No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parole...
DARYL GATES He said if you observed basic rules and security you would be OK. We knew he was playing it down for...
JOE CARROLL Carpenter did an amazing job, ... We all knew he had had a couple of bad outings. But there was no d...
REGGIE SANDERS Bill did not come tonight because he knew there would be reporters here, and he said he's tired of d...
JOE NICKEL You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edm...
C.S. LEWIS There is no secret here when he stood in the Roosevelt Room and said 'I never had sexual relations w...
CHARLES RUFF We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA He was one of the few people that could shut everybody up. He knew exactly what was going on. He cut...
GEOFF BUMP The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'
'There you are wro...
MARY BALOGH We're very confident when Chester Taylor is in there and we have no hesitation with him. But Jamal L...
BRIAN BILLICK There will be some things that are different that all college coaches go through when they get to th...
NORM CHOW Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
RICK RIORDAN The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I ...
TRACIE MILES There was no selfishness. You'd have Robin Ventura oh-for-four with three K's coming in in the eight...
JOE MCEWING he says. ''It was one of those ponds that are stocked with fish. He told me not to bring any live ba...
TED WILLIAMS King Solomon was right, when he said that there is nothing new under the sun because, very rarely yo...
DR HITESH C SHETH In my opinion, there is no way he would have played had he made the cut. I hate he shot 83, but he m...
DAVE KAPLAN When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE It wasn't a big meeting. I was coming from the clubhouse and he came my way. That's what he said, 'D...
CARLOS DELGADO This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in hi...
PEP GUARDIOLA When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there man...
BIBLE Well, I always knew that the best fighter would get into the hall of fame. There was no doubt in min...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit o...
CRAIG RIVET I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Tirian, with his head against Jewel's flank, slept as soundly as if he were in his royal bed at Cair...
C.S. LEWIS no one knew he was there, (and) Lasorda made sure everyone knew he was there.
BUZZIE BAVASI If we knew and if he knew (who killed Moxley), he would be the first one to rat the person out, no m...
MICKEY SHERMAN The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...
BRAM STOKER And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN He confronted my wife and she didn't deserve that. When my wife saw him, she asked him to leave and ...
HAL TURNER . . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON He was going to break my legs ,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “...
LEIGH BARDUGO Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. H...
NEIL SIMON Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?"
C.S. LEWIS He didn't lay out anything that the president isn't already doing. All he seemed to imply [was] that...
DANIELLE PLETKA There is a kind of truth in everything, even fairytales. In fact, especially in fairytales... The Ki...
ELIZABETH HOPKINSON ...God broke me to fix me because he loved me. Author C.S. Lewis said, 'God whispers to us in our pl...
JEFFERSON BETHKE They haven't come up with a vision for what if the monarchy is abolished. To the extent of opposing ...
YUBARAJ GHIMIRE He was afraid of losing. I told him, 'Go back there.' This was three years before he ran. He said, '...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Wil...
TERRY PRATCHETT The universe was not created through illogical assumptions of law. Law is its foundation. There are ...
CHARLES FILLMORE I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his...
C. JOYBELL C. There will come a time,'' I said, ''when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when ...
JOHN GREEN There is partial truth to that rumor. The president did say I would be good in the role, but when he...
JEAN RENO This was not adversarial at all. He called me and said he appreciated the fact we gave him his first...
BERNIE BICKERSTAFF He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in a...
KAMISESE MARA I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?” he said.

“I saw them thro...
TERRY PRATCHETT When he was talking about the approach segment, he said everything was normal. They knew where the t...
GREGORY FEITH It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid ...
JOANNE LIPMAN AND MELANIE KUPCHYNSKY Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling ...
COLLEEN HOOVER He was one of the guys ... there was this perfect communication with him. When I heard he was gettin...
BOB GOLIC They knew there was no licensed guide in the area.
LADD ERICKSON I knew this is really challenging for him not playing, but if we ever needed him there was never a d...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin...
J.M. BARRIE "Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peop...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peopl...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. ...
WINNIE THE POOH He never administered any medication. He never did. He never organized anything. There is no truth t...
ALPHONSUS EZEOKE He famously defended fairy stories against those who said they told children that there were monster...
TERRY PRATCHETT We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went do...
MICHAEL WINTER Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite...
C.S. LEWIS Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.
C.S. LEWIS Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Num...
COLLEEN CHEN I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I said I knew it. I told them that I knew that it would come today, and I knew that it would come th...
MIKE ESPY Let him come to Charcy, with his hithertos and his wherefores, and there he will find me, and with a...
C.S. PACAT It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, n...
C.S. LEWIS He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany a...
CHRISTOPHER WHITE Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.’ He turned to the High King and said, ‘The hurt ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) When he names Warren Buffett as a model, you've got to believe there are things he has in mind with ...
GEORGE ROSENBAUM What was missing was something that I knew he already knew was missing. I told him, 'You can't not g...
ANNE COLLINS So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he a...
BIBLE And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, T...
BIBLE He broke the windshield on this car. And he cut himself. And when he went it, he was bleeding. The c...
CHARLES CERVANTES I went down with my guitar and sat on his steps until he got there. And when he got there I introduc...
JOHNNY CASH Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,' I said. 'Do you know what that means?'
'It mea...
DAN WELLS This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou...
LEWIS THORPE He said all these things he was going to pay for through a tobacco settlement. There is no tobacco s...
BILL GOODLING And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our fa...
SERENA B. MILLER They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them i...
DIANE ARBUS It was because of the shah. There was no equality between classes. There was a gap between people, a...
JAFAR SHALDE There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only...
A. J. P. TAYLOR And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have...
SPIKE MILLIGAN No crying, no tears, only celebration. He wanted people to celebrate. He envisioned it to be a beaut...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

More C.S. Lewis

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C.S. LEWIS The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...
C.S. LEWIS The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. LEWIS The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some d...
C.S. LEWIS I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces
C.S. LEWIS Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of ...
C.S. LEWIS My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...
C.S. LEWIS When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette...
C.S. LEWIS Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that ...
C.S. LEWIS We turn first ter the bleedin' parallel quotations from Massinger and Shakespeare collocated by Guvn...
C.S. LEWIS ... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denom...
C.S. LEWIS If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should...
C.S. LEWIS It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is ...
C.S. LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...
C.S. LEWIS Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as i...
C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LEWIS No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...
C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...
C.S. LEWIS Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. LEWIS Nos acercaremos a Dios no con el intento de evitar los sufrimientos inherentes a todos los amores, s...
C.S. LEWIS Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel l...
C.S. LEWIS Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...
C.S. LEWIS The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...
C.S. LEWIS Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "...
C.S. LEWIS For most of us the true rivalry lies between the self and the human Other, not yet between the human...
C.S. LEWIS But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...
C.S. LEWIS I once ventured to say to an old clergyman who was voicing this sort of patriotism, "But, sir, aren'...
C.S. LEWIS Of all arguments against love, none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as "Careful! This might l...
C.S. LEWIS The loves prove that they are unworthy to take the place of God by the fact that they cannot even re...
C.S. LEWIS You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher, or the Christian by staring in his eyes as...
C.S. LEWIS Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love i...
C.S. LEWIS What I have called Appreciative love is no basic element in Affection. It usually needs absence or b...
C.S. LEWIS Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for ...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude o...
C.S. LEWIS Once you have realised that the Frenchmen like café complet just as we like bacon and eggs—why, g...
C.S. LEWIS The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...
C.S. LEWIS La amistad nace en el momento en el que una persona le dice a la otra: ¿Qué? ¿Tú también ? Pens...
C.S. LEWIS If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christen...
C.S. LEWIS A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot val...
C.S. LEWIS Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...
C.S. LEWIS Eros, honoured without reservation and obeyed unconditionally, becomes a demon.
C.S. LEWIS The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It w...
C.S. LEWIS Affection and Eros were too obviously connected with our nerves, too obviously shared with the brute...
C.S. LEWIS Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...
C.S. LEWIS If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having b...
C.S. LEWIS He has impressed upon our natures or states—must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is th...
C.S. LEWIS If you take nature as a teacher she will teach you exactly the lessons you had already decided to le...
C.S. LEWIS And as all Christians know there is another way of giving to God; every stranger whom we feed or clo...
C.S. LEWIS Medicine labours to restore 'natural' structure or 'normal' function. But greed, egoism, self-decept...
C.S. LEWIS Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a miser...
C.S. LEWIS Every human love, at its height, has a tendency to claim for itself a divine authority. Its voice te...
C.S. LEWIS Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appre...
C.S. LEWIS To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life...
C.S. LEWIS In my experience it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endur...
C.S. LEWIS Sexual desire, without Eros, wants it, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved.
C.S. LEWIS Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school ...
C.S. LEWIS Liking and Loves for the Sub-Human

“Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love ...
C.S. LEWIS There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will ...
C.S. LEWIS We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physi...
C.S. LEWIS El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios.
C.S. LEWIS Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines ...
C.S. LEWIS We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...
C.S. LEWIS Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experien...
C.S. LEWIS A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one...
C.S. LEWIS What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...
C.S. LEWIS Amar é, sempre, ser vulnerável. Para que nunca se sofra com isso, aconselha-se não se amar algo, ...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
C.S. LEWIS Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need...
C.S. LEWIS Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping ...
C.S. LEWIS When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has ...
C.S. LEWIS It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fru...
C.S. LEWIS Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
C.S. LEWIS While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwh...
C.S. LEWIS Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
C.S. LEWIS It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious fr...
C.S. LEWIS We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved.
C.S. LEWIS The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It w...
C.S. LEWIS We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude o...
C.S. LEWIS Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public ...
C.S. LEWIS But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies ha...
C.S. LEWIS In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself ...
C.S. LEWIS Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for Go...
C.S. LEWIS All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. LEWIS For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes ...
C.S. LEWIS Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration ...
C.S. LEWIS In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which ...
C.S. LEWIS The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT ...
C.S. LEWIS We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ...
C.S. LEWIS Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appre...
C.S. LEWIS We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...
C.S. LEWIS A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. ...
C.S. LEWIS [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense i...
C.S. LEWIS It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted crea...
C.S. LEWIS I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you wan...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...
C.S. LEWIS We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sa...
C.S. LEWIS Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ...
C.S. LEWIS Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll h...
C.S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C.S. LEWIS Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...
C.S. LEWIS The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where th...
C.S. LEWIS There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will ...
C.S. LEWIS Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden ...
C.S. LEWIS There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those t...
C.S. LEWIS I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as...
C.S. LEWIS You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know ...
C.S. LEWIS I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looki...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...
C.S. LEWIS The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...
C.S. LEWIS At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...
C.S. LEWIS As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...
C.S. LEWIS Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our nat...
C.S. LEWIS Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C.S. LEWIS In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
C.S. LEWIS Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the s...
C.S. LEWIS Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist...
C.S. LEWIS People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
C.S. LEWIS Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of ...
C.S. LEWIS The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but t...
C.S. LEWIS I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...
C.S. LEWIS He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no...
C.S. LEWIS I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...
C.S. LEWIS A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...
C.S. LEWIS We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the b...
C.S. LEWIS To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. LEWIS The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...
C.S. LEWIS If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
C.S. LEWIS Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C.S. LEWIS You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
C.S. LEWIS When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ...
C.S. LEWIS In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. LEWIS I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
C.S. LEWIS There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
C.S. LEWIS A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
C.S. LEWIS They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
C.S. LEWIS Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
C.S. LEWIS