The quotations of

C. S. Lewis

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar

1898–1963

151 quotes, most often on God, Christianity and Morality. Part of the Writers collection.

Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
- Atheism
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
“Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare”, in Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939)
- Thinking
- Truth & Lies
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
Letter (17 July 1953); Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 251
- Faith
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Dedication: “To Lucy Barfield”
- Age
- Reading
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Letter to Arthur Greeves (February 1932); in They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, 1914–1963 (1979), p. 439
- Reading
It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16: The Healing of Harms
- Children
- Maturity
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III
- Love
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
Miracles (1947), Ch. 3: “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”
- God
- Science
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, p. 90
- Writing
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic⁠—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg⁠—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
- Christianity
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952); in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
- Age
- Maturity
Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead.
Equality (1943)
- Fame
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- God
- Love
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
Out of the Silent Planet (1938), spoken by Hyoi
- Happiness
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III: “Divine Goodness”
- Love

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