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.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. II
- Religion
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
Mere Christianity
- God
Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
The Case for Christianity
- Morality
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.
- Age
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?
Encounter with Light
- Theology
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- Life & Death
You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
The Weight of Glory
- God
- Work
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?’
- Writing
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
Mere Christianity
- Morality
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
Reflections on the Psalms
- Christianity
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
“Miracles” (1942), p. 29
- Theology
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- Theology
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
- Theology

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