C.S. Lewis Quotes - Page 2

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience: that is why there is no real teaching of such truths possible and every generation starts from scratch.

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

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

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 never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we 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 make him happy.