C. S. Lewis Quotes

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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.

There is someone that I love even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is……me.

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.

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

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.