C.S. Lewis Quotes – Inspiring Words by a Literary Mastermind

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis

Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’” – C.S. Lewis

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. – C.S. Lewis

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. – C.S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are. – C.S. Lewis

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. – C.S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C.S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. – C.S. Lewis

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

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis Quotes – Inspiring Words by a Literary Mastermind part 2

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C.S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. – C.S. Lewis

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. – C.S. Lewis

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. – C.S. Lewis

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal. – C.S. Lewis

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. – C.S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.” – C.S. Lewis

If you have nothing, then you have everything. Because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something. – C.S. Lewis

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. – C.S. Lewis

The past is frozen and no longer flows, and the present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. – C.S. Lewis

To love is to be vulnerable. – C.S. Lewis

I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun: not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else. – C.S. Lewis

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life. – C.S. Lewis

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. – C.S. Lewis

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. – C.S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. – C.S. Lewis

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me. – C.S. Lewis

You can make anything by writing. – C.S. Lewis

Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. – C.S. Lewis

I had a dream about you. You were pencil crayons. They kept getting smaller and smaller until there was nothing left. I haven’t told you that before. I forget how to explain it properly – C.S. Lewis

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from – C.S. Lewis

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

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending – C.S. Lewis

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again – C.S. Lewis

The Lion said, ‘I am going to swallow you soon.’ ‘Indeed,’ thought the Boy, ‘I’d love to see that’; and he sat and waited with his sword ready. – C.S. Lewis

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. – C.S. Lewis

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different? – C.S. Lewis