“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C. S. Lewis
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
C. S. Lewis
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
C. S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C. S. Lewis
“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.”
C. S. Lewis
“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.”
C. S. Lewis
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
C. S. Lewis
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C. S. Lewis
“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
C. S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
C. S. Lewis
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C. S. Lewis
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
C. S. Lewis
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.”
C. S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C. S. Lewis
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
C. S. Lewis
“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
C. S. Lewis
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
C. S. Lewis
