Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

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

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“There’s always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.”

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place”

“Dont use words too big for the subject. Dont say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise youll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

““…when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions…when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.””

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

“In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri”

“Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as youre looking down, you cant see something thats above you.”

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

“Talk to me about the truth of religion and Ill listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and Ill listen submissively. But dont come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you dont understand.”

“I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to rejoice as much as by anything else”

“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

“Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.”

“The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world”

“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all”

“Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.”

“The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.”