25 Famous Quotes From C.S Lewis

1. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
2. 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.
3. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
4. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
5. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
9. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
10. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
11. 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.'
12. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
13. We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
14. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
15. We are what we believe we are.
16. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
17. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
18. You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
19. 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.
20. Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
21. 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.
22. Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
23. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
24. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
25. 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.