C. S. Lewis Quotes

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)

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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was an Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his essays on Christianity and for the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Pen Names: N. W. Clerk • Clive Hamilton

Birth Name: Clive Staples Lewis

Alternative Names: CS Lewis • C.S. Lewis • Clive Lewis • Nat Whilk

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The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

I have always — at least, ever since I can remember — had a kind of longing for death.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

"The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.