Quotes from C.S. Lewis

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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

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

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

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

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

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

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

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.