C. S. Lewis is one of the most quoted authors online. These are his 100 most popular quotes.
1. “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”
2. “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
3. “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
4. “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
5. “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.”
6. “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
7. “Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’”
8. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
9. “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist to support it.”
10. “What one calls interruptions are precisely one’s real life.”
11. “The future is something everyone reaches at sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does.”
12. “There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘Have it your way.’”
13. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
14. “A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.”
15. “15 It's easier to pray for a bore than to go see one.”
16. “The terrible thing is to hand over your whole self—all wishes and precautions—to Christ.”
17. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
18. “Day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”
19. “When Christians behave badly, we make Christianity unbelievable.”
20. “If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
21. “Love is a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
22. “We are mirrors whose brightness comes wholly from the sun that shines on us.”
23. “All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
24. “Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”
25. “Only the pure in heart want to see God.”
26. “First love gives fidelity; quieter love enables them to keep it.”
27. “All our adventures were only the cover and title page; now we begin Chapter One of the Great Story.”
28. “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”
29. “Nothing is so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
30. “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”
31. “Love is more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
32. “Miracles retell in small letters the same story written across the whole world.”
33. “You were brought to Narnia so that knowing me here, you may know me better there.”
34. “God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.”
35. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
36. “We want to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to become part of it.”
37. “You are at every moment totally dependent on God.”
38. “What you see and hear depends on where you stand and what sort of person you are.”
39. “Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”
40. “Friends see and share the same truth.”
41. “If a man’s self is not clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.”
42. “The delight in beauty is incomplete till it is expressed.”
43. “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun.”
44. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
45. “The door we have been knocking on all our lives will open at last.”
46. “Friendship is born when one says to another: ‘What! You too?’”
47. “The Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
48. “If I find desires nothing in this world can satisfy, I was made for another world.”
49. “God shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
50. “Those who keep silence about our miseries hurt more than those who speak.”
51. “Christ died for you individually as if you were the only person in the world.”
52. “We accept excuses too easily for ourselves; not easily enough for others.”
53. “If God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves.”
54. “My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.”
55. “When we lose one blessing, another is often unexpectedly given.”
56. “No good work is done without aid from the Father of Lights.”
57. “God has armed you to go through tribulation without stain.”
58. “We can nowhere evade the presence of God. He walks everywhere incognito.”
59. “To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.”
60. “Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.”
61. “Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”
62. “One road leads home; a thousand into the wilderness.”
63. “Relying on God must begin all over again every day.”
64. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
65. “If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made, where would I be?”
66. “Everyone says forgiveness is lovely—until they have something to forgive.”
67. “Once a stable contained something bigger than our whole world.”
68. “Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”
69. “It is not your business to succeed, but to do right.”
70. “Faith holds on to reason’s accepted truths despite changing moods.”
71. “Becoming a Christian will take the whole of you.”
72. “Now is our chance to choose the right side—it won’t last forever.”
73. “After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.”
74. “Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.”
75. “When all suns and nebulae have passed, each of you will still be alive.”
76. “Arguing against God is arguing against the power that lets you argue.”
77. “We wonder how painful God’s best for us will be.”
78. “God has infinite attention for each of us.”
79. “We treat God like a parachute—there for emergencies but hopefully never needed.”
80. “Converting rebellious wills cost God crucifixion.”
81. “The heart should never replace the head, but obey it.”
82. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”
83. “No sense trusting Jesus if you won’t take His advice.”
84. “God gives us what we need, not what we now think we want.”
85. “Human history is man trying to find something other than God to make him happy.”
86. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn.”
87. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
88. “We are what we believe we are.”
89. “Courage, dear heart.”
90. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
91. “I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
92. “God will make us good because He loves us.”
93. “Pride gets no pleasure from having something, only from having more than the next man.”
94. “Christianity is of infinite importance—nothing moderate about it.”
95. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did.”
96. “A proud man is always looking down and cannot see what is above him.”
97. “We must play, but our merriment must take each other seriously.”
98. “Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or joy worth having.”
99. “Some people feel guilty about anxieties—they are afflictions, not sins.”
100. “Either Jesus was the Son of God, or a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or fall at His feet and call Him Lord—but no patronizing nonsense about a great teacher.”
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