“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.”
God
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
NatureAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
Faith“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
Age“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”
Birthday“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
Life“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 be gratified at the expense of the rest.”
War“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Good“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
Love“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Motivational“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
Men“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Courage“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History“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 think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
History“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.”
Religion“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'”
God“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Happiness“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
Experience“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
Failure