129 Inspiring C.S. Lewis Quotes That Will Give You Some Food For Thought

“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”

“And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

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

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”

“This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”

“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words.”

“But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”

“I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.”