One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
There's an abundance of book quotes online; however, this passage might sound pretty familiar to you. And if it does, your brain is not playing mind games on you. This famous quote from one of the Narnia books may hit close to home because it takes you back to when you discovered the series and the magical realm of Narnia. Back in a time when fairytales didn't feel so unrealistic or childish, and the idea that you might "discover" a new universe in the back of your closet didn't seem so ridiculous. Oh, what a lovely experience it must've been to read The Chronicles of Narnia books for the first time.
Whether a fan of the novel series or the media franchise, you must know who brought this fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts, and talking animals to light. Clive Staples Lewis, the British writer and theologian must be no stranger to you then. Throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrote more than 30 books. Although not explicitly a children's book author, he's best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, now considered a classic of children's literature and some of the best children's books.
However, the numerous books are not all the writer has left behind. C.S. Lewis left hundreds of inspiring quotes and quotes from books that keep the memory of this incredible author alive to this day. And whether you're familiar with the author and his stories or not, many of these famous quotes by C.S. Lewis will strike you as wise and moving.
Below, we have compiled a selection of the best C.S. Lewis quotes about friendship, love, faith, suffering, literature, and Christianity. But don't get discouraged if you are not a Christian or religious; either way, you will find an inspiring quote that will fit your beliefs and values. Is there a quote from the Narnia books that you particularly like? Let us know!
#81
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”
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#82
“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
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#83
“It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumbling's or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision – it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.”
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#84
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest.”
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#85
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
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#86
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ.”
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#87
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
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#88
“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”
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#89
“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”
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#90
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
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#91
“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.”
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#92
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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#93
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
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#94
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
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#95
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
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#96
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
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#97
“Do not dare not to dare.”
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#98
“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.”
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#99
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
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#100
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
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