C. S. Lewis Quotes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.