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.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Theology
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- Education
- Morality
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
The Pilgrim’s Regress
- Love
- Sex
It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)
- Beauty
- Happiness
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God will say ‘Thy will be done.’
The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9
- God
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
The World’s Last Night
- Christianity
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI: “Human Pain”
- God
Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)
- Faith
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- God
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
Letters to Malcolm
- Beauty
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.
Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 8, “The Great Sin”
- Pride
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 & Lies
‘You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan. ‘And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.’
The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan to Caspian, in Ch. 15: Aslan Makes A Door In The Air
- Christianity
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. III
- Life & Death
- Love
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

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