C. S. Lewis

“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.”

“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.”

“'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about for...”

“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

“You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely...”

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”

“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.”

“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a wo...”

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown...”

“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.”

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to thin...”

“Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does...”

“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to b...”

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair...”

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should n...”

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