C. S. Lewis Quotes.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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.
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
