Quotes by C. S. Lewis

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.

Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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

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

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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

Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn you will find yourself disliking him less.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Though our feelings come and go Gods love for us does not.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. Its not the sort of comfort they supply there.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.