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Famous Quotations: C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia and other excellent books (check out the Screwtape Letters and the Great Divorce.) Here are a few quotes of his that I like:

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“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.”

“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.”"

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn.”

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

“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.”

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“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.”

“It is hard to have patience with people who say “There is no death” or “Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.”

“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 do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies - those vast and perilous."

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“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.”

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”