C. S. Lewis Quotes

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

- 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 

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 

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- 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 

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

- C. S. Lewis 

Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. 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 forgiveness.

- C. S. Lewis 

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

- C. S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."

- C. S. Lewis