Quotes from C.S. Lewis

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.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

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

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

We are what we believe we are!

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

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

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

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.