Best CS Lewis Quotes

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Aim at heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

You can make anything by writing.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

We would mind Humiliation less if we were Humble.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Best CS Lewis Quotes part 2

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Joy, not sorrow, is the serious business of heaven.

We are what we believe we are.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.

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.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

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.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.