C.S Lewis Quotes

 From "Chalkboard Quote Collection"

C.S. Lewis:

Everything is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

No over told me that grief felt so like fear.  ~A Grief Observed

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever really be yours.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

There are only 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."

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God for only the pure in heart want to.

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever, in which every chapter is better than the ones before.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

We're not doubting that God will do the best for us; we're wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.