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C.S. Lewis Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Tagged: first lines of books
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
— C.S. Lewis, 35 Quotes That Totally CAPTURE Your Wacky But Wonderful Friendships
Tagged: Friendship, Love, C.S Lewis
“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.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: How To Think, Miracles, The Art of Awareness
“Do you think we mortals will find you gods easier to bear if you’re beautiful? I tell you that if that’s true we’ll find you a thousand times worse. For then (I know what beauty does) you’ll lure and entice. You’ll leave us nothing; nothing that’s worth our keeping or your taking. Those we love best - whoever’s most worth loving - those are the very ones you’ll pick out. Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse and worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on his mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can’t follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We’d rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We’d rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
Tagged: beauty, God, Religion, Vanity
“You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask for forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God.”
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Tagged: God, Religion, prayer
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