82 CS Lewis Quotes To Apply in Everyday Life
C.S. Lewis, whose full name was Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963), was a renowned British writer, scholar, and Christian apologist. C.S. Lewis was important writers of his days because of his deep insights on human nature, morality, faith, and the complexities of life.
He authored many essays, theological works, and philosophical writings that continue to influence readers all over the world.
Some of his most popular accomplishments include: “The Chronicles of Narnia” Series, Christian Apologetics, Literary Criticism, Broadcast Talks & Academic Career.
In this article we have gathered best cs lewis quotes to bridge the gap between world of Lewis’s imagination and the realities of our everyday lives.
Best CS Lewis Quotes
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Courage, dear heart.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
“You can make anything by writing.”
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
“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.'”
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
CS Lewis Quotes on Love
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
“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 them.”
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
“Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
“Love is not something that happens to us. Love is something we do.”
“The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.”
“The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.”
“Love is not something that you can put first and foremost in your life, for if you do so, you will end up loving no one.”
“To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin.”
“God is love, and that love works through men—especially through the whole community of Christians.”
“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”
CS Lewis Quotes About God & Christianity
“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.”
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
“God is both further from us, and nearer to us, than any other being.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”
“I think that if God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him.”
“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slackers.”
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
“The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.’ A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food.”
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness.”
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
“Christianity is not the belief that God is good. It is the belief that God is so good that He became a man to rescue us from our sins.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man.”
“Relying on God has to start all over every day as if nothing has yet been done.”
CS Lewis Quotes on Life
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
“Do not dare not to dare.”
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
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CS Lewis A Grief Observed Quotes
“I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another.”
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.'”
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
“The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can’t give it.”
“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.'”
“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of ‘No answer.’ It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, ‘Peace, child; you don’t understand.'”
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
“For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs.”
“You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
“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?”
“You tell me, Lord. All I know is still the ache of absence.”
CS Lewis Friendship Quotes
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.”
“Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
Conclusion:
Thank you for reading this. Hope you liked these CS Lewis Quotes. Let’s develop stronger relationships with others, show kindness, and forgive them. May we continually strive for growth and self-improvement !
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