Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“This is and has been the Father’s work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.”

“God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.”

“The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.”

“A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven”

“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens belief that they own their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”

“We all want progress, but if youre 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.”

“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”

“Life isnt all fricassied frog and eel pie.”

“When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason.”

“People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.”

“Platos cave is full of freaks, demanding refunds for the things that they see.”

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

“I could well believe that it is Gods intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel usinto unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in thehand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God:Judas and Satan as tools or instruments, John and Peter as sons.”

“The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.”

“Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the godof the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the endand wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?”

“Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.”

“The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.”

“Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”

“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in ones own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely ones life.”

“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”