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!
#101
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
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#102
“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it — made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”
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#103
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
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#104
“It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing… to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
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#105
“‘Child,’ said the Lion, ‘I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.’”
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#106
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
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#107
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?”
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#108
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
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#109
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
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#110
“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
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#111
“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
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#112
“[Reality] is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”
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#113
“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”
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#114
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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#115
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
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#116
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”
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#117
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
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#118
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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#119
“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
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#120
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
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