Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
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Famous C. S. Lewis Quotes
Source: God in the Dock
“I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.”
Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
“You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: Joyful Christian
“And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.”
Source: The last battle
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.”
“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.”
Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality
“Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.”
“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: God in the Dock
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.”
Source: Miracles
“Much is expected from those to whom much is given.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: God in the Dock
“Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.”
“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
Source: C. S. Lewis on Joy
“Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.”
“All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.”
“Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition