Some Famous Quotes C.S Lewis

1. 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.
2. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
3. 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.
4. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
5. Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
6. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
7. The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
8. 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.
9. Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
10. I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
11. 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.
12. Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
13. What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
14. The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
15. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
16. Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
17. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
18. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
19. A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
20. The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
21. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
22. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
23. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
24. With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
25. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.