Quotes by C.S. Lewis

...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

People shouldnt call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me.

What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldnt wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him.

Daughter, said the Hermit, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.

Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been some magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. Im sorry, Aslan, she said. Im ready now.Now you are a lioness, said Aslan. And now all Narnia will be renewed.

Shastas heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally inherit tradition.

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

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

Lead us not into temptation often means, among other things, Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, de

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.