“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Future
“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
TimeAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
Age“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Good“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
Nature“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“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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Happiness“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Imagination“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Courage“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“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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Art“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
Truth“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
Love“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
Marriage“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Fear