Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University.
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. – C.S. Lewis
When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all. – C.S. Lewis
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. – C.S. Lewis
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis
[Reality] is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. – C.S. Lewis
The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis
All get what they want; they do not always like it. – C.S. Lewis
We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. – C.S. Lewis
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. – C.S. Lewis
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. – C.S. Lewis
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it. – C.S. Lewis
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life. – C.S. Lewis
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. – C.S. Lewis
If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him. – C.S. Lewis
Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’ – C.S. Lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C.S. Lewis