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C S Lewis Quotes

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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread  (C S Lewis Quotes) Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life  (C S Lewis Quotes) The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle  (C S Lewis Quotes) If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat  (C S Lewis Quotes) A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid  (C S Lewis Quotes) Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility... youth’s characteristic chronological snobbery  (C S Lewis Quotes) We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin  (C S Lewis Quotes) I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one  (C S Lewis Quotes) How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it’s irresistible!  (C S Lewis Quotes) God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them  (C S Lewis Quotes) It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It’s not the sort of comfort they supply there  (C S Lewis Quotes) There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit  (C S Lewis Quotes) Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it  (C S Lewis Quotes) In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice  (C S Lewis Quotes) At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says  (C S Lewis Quotes) I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death  (C S Lewis Quotes) Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position  (C S Lewis Quotes) All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt  (C S Lewis Quotes) One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity  (C S Lewis Quotes) Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger  (C S Lewis Quotes) I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him  (C S Lewis Quotes) God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?  (C S Lewis Quotes) Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth  (C S Lewis Quotes) You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity  (C S Lewis Quotes) The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation  (C S Lewis Quotes) Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other  (C S Lewis Quotes) Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose  (C S Lewis Quotes) Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result  (C S Lewis Quotes) If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them  (C S Lewis Quotes) No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power  (C S Lewis Quotes)
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