Quotes by C.S. Lewis
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
- C.S. Lewis
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- C.S. Lewis
Faith… is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
- C.S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
- C.S. Lewis
“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”
- C.S. Lewis
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C.S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C.S. Lewis
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- C.S. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- C.S. Lewis
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C.S. Lewis
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
- C.S. Lewis
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
- C.S. Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
- C.S. Lewis
You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.
- C.S. Lewis
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
- C.S. Lewis
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
- C.S. Lewis