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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), old Oxford Professor, Christian apologist, lay theologian of now legendary status. His atoning workMere Christianityremains a height 5 apologetic for the Christian faith, while his children's booksThe Chronicles of Narnia continue to teach the Christian faith in a powerful way.

Final twelvemonth marked the 50th year of his decease, and in honor of C.S. Lewis'southward legacy and I thought I would share some of his best quotes from his most famous works, along with some extended excerpts compiled from my personal reading and online research.

If I missed a cracking quote, be certain to leave information technology in a comment!

C.S. Lewis Quotes on God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity

"The Christian does not call back God will love us because we are good, simply that God will make usa expert because He loves us."
― C.S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the dominicus has risen: not only because I come across it, but because past it I see everything else."
― C.S. Lewis

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this earth tin satisfy, the almost probable explanation is that we were made for another globe."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"A human tin can no more diminish God'due south glory past refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the lord's day by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
― C.S. Lewis,The Problem of Hurting

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At starting time, perhaps, you tin can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; yous knew that those jobs needed doing then you are non surprised. Merely presently He starts knocking the house about in a manner that hurts abominably and does non seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The caption is that He is building quite a dissimilar firm from the 1 y'all thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor at that place, running upward towers, making courtyards. You thought y'all were being fabricated into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come up and live in it Himself."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"To exist a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"[God] will non be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they tin revive the Faith in order to make a adept social club might just as well think they can apply the stairs of heaven every bit a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."
― C.South. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I e'er knew a bottle of Port would exercise that. If you want a faith to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity."
― C.S. Lewis

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But information technology is immortals whom we joke with, work with, ally, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to exist perpetually solemn. We must play. Merely our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the first, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
― C.S. Lewis

"He died not for men, merely for each homo. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
― C.S. Lewis

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires non also potent, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with beverage and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered u.s., like an ignorant child who wants to continue making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offering of a holiday at the body of water. We are far besides easily pleased."
― C.Southward. Lewis,The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

"If you await for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if yous look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth simply soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the terminate, despair."
― C.S. Lewis

"In that location are only two kinds of people in the finish: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy volition exist washed." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that cocky-option there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. "
― C.S. Lewis,The Peachy Divorce

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters also large for some of us to see."
― C.South. Lewis

"Truthful humility is non thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
― C.S. Lewis

"[To have Religion in Christ] means, of course, trying to exercise all that He says. There would exist no sense in saying you trusted a person if y'all would not have his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried fashion. Non doing these things in order to be saved, simply because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain fashion because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already within you."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"It is when we detect the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
― C.S. Lewis

"Look for yourself, and you volition detect in the long run just hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But expect for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The more than we let God take usa over, the more than truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented u.s.a.. He invented all the unlike people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I plow to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a existent personality of my own."
― C.S. Lewis

"As long as you are proud yous cannot know God. A proud man is always looking downwardly on matter and people: and, of class, as long as you are looking downwards you lot cannot run across something that is above yous."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The perfect church service would exist one we were almost unaware of; our attention would take been on God." —C.S. Lewis

"Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
—C.Due south. Lewis

"Recollect He is the creative person and you are but the movie. You tin can't run across it. So quietly submit to be painted—i.due east., go on fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well plenty what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and and so leaving it solitary. Yous are in the correct fashion. Walk—don't keep on looking at it."
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that nosotros telephone call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will brand him happy."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"Relying on God has to begin all over once again every day as if aught had yet been done."
― C.S. Lewis, Messages to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"The great affair to recollect is that though our feelings come up and go God's love for us does not."
― C.S. Lewis

"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is nearly like setting up ourselves equally a higher tribunal than Him."
― C.South. Lewis

"Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the just thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
― C.S. Lewis

"A silly thought is electric current that good people practice not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. But those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation later five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an 60 minutes after. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very niggling virtually badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"At present nosotros cannot…discover our failure to go along God's constabulary except past trying our very hardest (and then declining). Unless nosotros actually try, any we say there will always exist at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder adjacent time nosotros shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral try, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring united states of america dwelling. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "Yous must do this. I can't."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of decease."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his ain rights and obey the Lord Jesus."
― C.S. Lewis

"For you volition certainly behave out God'due south purpose, however you lot act, only it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John."
― C.S. Lewis, The Trouble of Pain

"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
― C.S. Lewis

"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall encounter God, for but the pure in heart want to."
― C.S. Lewis,The Problem of Pain

"I call up Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must detest a bad human being'south deportment but non hate the bad man: or, every bit they would say, hate the sin merely not the sinner. …I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later on it occurred to me that there was one homo to whom I had been doing this all my life — namely myself. All the same much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty well-nigh it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the human. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to notice that I was the sort of man who did those things."
― C.Due south. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"We may ignore, only we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
― C.S. Lewis

"If I notice in myself desires which nothing in this world tin can satisfy, the merely logical caption is that I was made for another world."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"Die earlier you lot die, in that location is no chance after."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"No human being knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."
― C.Southward. Lewis

"At that place is merely ane practiced; that is God. Everything else is expert when it looks to Him and bad when information technology turns from Him."
― C.S. Lewis, The Smashing Divorce

"To what volition you look for help if you lot volition not wait to that which is stronger than yourself?"
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"In God y'all come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-y'all do not know God at all. "
― C.S. Lewis

"Aim at Heaven and you will get World 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you lot will get neither."
― C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian

"Indeed the safest route to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,…Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape."
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being in a higher place the residue. Once the chemical element of contest is gone, pride is gone."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"Progress means getting nearer to the identify you lot want to be. And if you accept taken a wrong turning, then to become forward does non get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an nearly-turn and walking dorsum to the right route; and in that instance the man who turns back soonest is the well-nigh progressive human."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

C.Due south. Lewis the Apologist: Quotes about Apologetics and Disbelief

"Atheism turns out to be likewise simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no significant…"
― C.Due south. Lewis

"When you argue against Him y'all are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is similar cutting off the branch you are sitting on."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Reality, in fact, is usually something yous could not take guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not accept guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had ever expected, I should experience we were making it up. But, in fact, it is non the sort of thing anyone would take made up. It has but that queer twist about it that real things have. And then let u.s.a. go out behind all these boys' philosophies–these over simple answers. The problem is not elementary and the answer is not going to be simple either."
― C.Southward. Lewis

"A fellow who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
― C.South. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

"If the whole universe has no meaning, nosotros should never have found out that it has no meaning: only every bit, if there were no calorie-free in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Nighttime would be without meaning."
― C.S. Lewis

"My statement confronting God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A human does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a direct line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
― C.South. Lewis

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing information technology cannot exist is moderately important."
― C.S. Lewis

"I am trying hither to prevent anyone saying the really foolish matter that people oftentimes say about Him: I'1000 ready to take Jesus every bit a corking moral teacher, only I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one affair we must not say. A human who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a smashing moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. Yous tin shut him upward for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and telephone call him Lord and God, but let the states not come with any patronizing nonsense near his being a great man teacher. He has not left that open up to us. He did not intend to."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

"It was when I was happiest that I longed near…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from."
― C.South. Lewis, Till Nosotros Have Faces

C.South. Lewis Quotes on Love and Friendship

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
― C.Southward. Lewis,The Four Loves

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
― C.South. Lewis

"Friendship is built-in at that moment when ane person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the merely one."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact yous must give it to no 1, not even an fauna. Wrap information technology advisedly circular with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it upwards safety in the catafalque or bury of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it volition modify. It will not be cleaved; it will get unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to exist vulnerable."
― C.Due south. Lewis,The Four Loves

"Honey may forgive all infirmities and dearest nevertheless in spite of them: merely Love cannot terminate to will their removal."
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Hurting

"Dearest is not affectionate feeling, simply a steady wish for the loved person'south ultimate good as far every bit information technology can be obtained."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the aforementioned truth. They share it."
― C.S. Lewis

"Better to exist miserable with her than happy without her. Permit our hearts break provided they break together. If the phonation inside us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros."
― C.S. Lewis

"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'honey' your neighbor; act as if you did. Equally soon every bit nosotros practice this we notice one of the great secrets. When yous are behaving every bit if you loved someone, you will presently come to beloved him."
― C.S. Lewis

."..Friendship is non a reward for our discriminating and good sense of taste in finding 1 another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others."
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"We live, in fact, in a earth starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
― C.Southward. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

C.S. Lewis Quotes on Hurting and Suffering

"Nosotros are not necessarily doubting that God volition practise the all-time for united states of america; nosotros are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
― C.S. Lewis

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to united states of america in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
― C.S. Lewis

"Hardship oft prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."
― C.South. Lewis

"Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. Only y'all have to stop sooner or afterward, and so you still have to decide what to do."
― C.S. Lewis

"Love is something more than stern and first-class than mere kindness."
― C.S. Lewis

"I accept learned now that while those who speak near one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
― C.S. Lewis

"No one always told me that grief felt then like fear."
― C.Southward. Lewis,A Grief Observed

"I know now, Lord, why you lot utter no answer. You are yourself the respond. Earlier your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
― C.Southward. Lewis

"The hurting I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
― C.S. Lewis

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more than hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental hurting increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken."
― C.S. Lewis, The Trouble of Pain

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in social club to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
― C.South. Lewis

"I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking nigh the toothache and about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that y'all don't only suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that yous suffer. I non only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each twenty-four hours in grief."
― C.South. Lewis,A Grief Observed

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blest are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course information technology is dissimilar when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination."
― C.Due south. Lewis,A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis Quotes about Instruction

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make homo a more clever devil."
― C.Due south. Lewis

"The job of the modern educator is not to cut downwardly jungles, but to gargle deserts."
― C.S. Lewis

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of whatever other slacker."
― C.S. Lewis

Random Quotes from the Famous C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers be for ane purpose only – and that is to back up the ultimate career. "
― C.S. Lewis

"Integrity is doing the right matter, even when no one is watching."
― C.S. Lewis

"A proud homo is always looking downwards on things and people; and, of course, as long as yous are looking down, y'all cannot see something that is above you."
― C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity

Quotes from The Chronicles of Narnia

"Information technology isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. Nosotros shan't come across you lot there. And how can nosotros alive, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, love i," said Aslan.
"Are -are you lot in that location too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I take another name. Y'all must learn to know me by that proper name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me hither for a little, yous may know me better in that location."
― C.Southward. Lewis,The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

"At present the trouble virtually trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that y'all very oftentimes succeed."
― C.S. Lewis,The Sorcerer's Nephew

"What you see and what y'all hear depends a slap-up deal on where you lot are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
― C.S. Lewis,The Magician'southward Nephew

"Merely 1 of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to exercise things is that when at that place is no one to force you whatsoever more you detect you accept almost lost the power of forcing yourself."
― C.S. Lewis,The Horse and His Boy

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to yous," said the Panthera leo."
― C.S. Lewis,The Silver Chair

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells yous? Who said anything about condom? 'Course he isn't prophylactic. Simply he's good. He's the King, I tell yous."
― C.S. Lewis, The King of beasts, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"Peter did not experience very dauntless; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no departure to what he had to practise."
― C.Due south. Lewis,The Chronicles of Narnia

"Yous come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honor enough to cock the head of the poorest beggar, and shame plenty to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on world. Be content."
― C.Due south. Lewis, Prince Caspian

"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you lot accept near getting to bed."
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

"Only, first, recall, call up, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morn and when you lie down at night, and when you lot wake in the middle of the night. And any strange things may happen to you, let nothing plough your mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a alert. Here on the mountain I take spoken to y'all clearly: I volition non ofttimes do so down in Narnia. Here on the mountain, the air is articulate and your mind is clear; every bit you lot drib down into Narnia, the air volition thicken. Take great intendance that it does not confuse your mind. And the signs which you accept learned here will non look at all as you await them to look, when you run into them there. That is why it is and so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Recall the signs and believe the signs. Zip else matters."
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

"Oh, Adam'south sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
― C.S. Lewis, The Wizard's Nephew

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."
― C.Southward. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

"Do not dare not to dare."
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you lot won't. He doesn't like being tied down–and of course he has other countries to nourish to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only yous mustn't press him. He'due south wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
― C.Due south. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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