Quotes from C.S. Lewis

The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk."

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, 'You must do this. I can't.

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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 every having noticed it.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.