Clive Staples Lewis, also known as C.S. Lewis, was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He studied English literature at both Cambridge University and Oxford University. He was also the author of the widely known book The Chronicles of Narnia. May these CS Lewis quotes about God, love, friendship, and self give you insights that will be helpful on your life's journey.
1. “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis
2. “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis
3. “The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” – C.S. Lewis
4. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
5. “We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis
6. “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.” – C.S. Lewis
7. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because he loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
8. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
9. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis
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10. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C.S. Lewis
11. “I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” – C.S. Lewis
12. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis
13. “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
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15. “Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis
17. “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” – C.S. Lewis
18. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis
19. “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” – C.S. Lewis
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20. “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.” – C.S. Lewis
21. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis
22. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C.S. Lewis
23. “You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis
24. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C.S. Lewis
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25. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.” – C.S. Lewis
26. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C.S. Lewis
27. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
28. “I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” – C.S. Lewis
29. “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
30. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
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31. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C.S. Lewis
32. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
33. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
34. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” – C.S. Lewis
35. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
36. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C.S. Lewis
37. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” – C.S. Lewis
38. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – C.S. Lewis
39. “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.” – C.S. Lewis
40. “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” – C.S. Lewis
41. “Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” – C.S. Lewis
42. “Things never happen the same way twice.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis
44. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
45. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
46. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” – C.S. Lewis
48. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C.S. Lewis
49. “With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” – C.S. Lewis
50. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” – C.S. Lewis
51. “I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.” – C.S. Lewis
52. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.” – C.S. Lewis
53. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C.S. Lewis
54. “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.” – C.S. Lewis
55. “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.” – C.S. Lewis
56. “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.” – C.S. Lewis
57. “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.” – C.S. Lewis
59. “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of his presence.” – C.S. Lewis
60. “Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” – C.S. Lewis
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2. “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis
3. “The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” – C.S. Lewis
4. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
5. “We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis
6. “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.” – C.S. Lewis
7. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because he loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
8. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
9. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis
11. “I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” – C.S. Lewis
12. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis
13. “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis
17. “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” – C.S. Lewis
18. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis
19. “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” – C.S. Lewis
21. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis
22. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C.S. Lewis
23. “You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis
24. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C.S. Lewis
26. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C.S. Lewis
27. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
28. “I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” – C.S. Lewis
29. “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
30. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
More Quotes by CS Lewis
31. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C.S. Lewis
32. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
33. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
34. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” – C.S. Lewis
35. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
36. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C.S. Lewis
37. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” – C.S. Lewis
38. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – C.S. Lewis
39. “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.” – C.S. Lewis
40. “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” – C.S. Lewis
41. “Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” – C.S. Lewis
42. “Things never happen the same way twice.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis
44. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
45. “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.” – C.S. Lewis
46. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” – C.S. Lewis
48. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C.S. Lewis
49. “With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” – C.S. Lewis
50. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” – C.S. Lewis
51. “I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.” – C.S. Lewis
52. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.” – C.S. Lewis
53. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C.S. Lewis
54. “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.” – C.S. Lewis
55. “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.” – C.S. Lewis
56. “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.” – C.S. Lewis
57. “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.” – C.S. Lewis
59. “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of his presence.” – C.S. Lewis
60. “Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” – C.S. Lewis
Share these Quotes from CS Lewis with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.