C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), or Jack Lewis as he preferred to be called, was British professor, writer and undoubtedly one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. During his lifetime he wrote more than 30 books that attracted an army of readers across the globe. Some of his most distinguished accomplishments include works such as Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, as well as The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series that have sold in more than 100 million copies across the globe and retained its international popularity over the decades.
If you loved books by C.S. Lewis, especially the stories about lion Aslan and two siblings in Narnia, there is no doubt you will enjoy reading the inspirational quotes by their author. We bring you some of his best quotes from his most famous works, as well as our favorites that we like to read and think about on numerous occasions.
1. ON people
In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do. – C.S. Lewis
2. ON HAPPINESS
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. – C.S Lewis
3. ON future
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
4. ON CHASING YOUR DREAMS
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis
5. ON ORIGINALITY
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ― C.S. Lewis
6. ON READING
We read to know that we are not alone – C.S. Lewis
7. ON LOVE
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. – C.S. Lewis
8. ON humility
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. ― C.S. Lewis
9. ON FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ― C.S. Lewis
10. ON INTEGRITY
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. ― C.S. Lewis
11. ON LIFE’S PLEASURES
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ― C.S. Lewis
12. ON CHRISTIANITY AND FAITH
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. ― C.S. Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ― C.S. Lewis
13. ON EXPERIENCE
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn. ― C.S. Lewis
14. ON EDUCATION
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ― C.S. Lewis
15. ON HARDSHIP
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis
16. ON COURAGE
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ― C.S. Lewis
17. ON WRITING
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. – C.S. Lewis
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. – C.S. Lewis
18. ON HUMAN RACE
Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ― C.S. Lewis
19. ON WORDS
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. ― C.S. Lewis
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. ― C.S. Lewis
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