C. S. Lewis Quotes About Life

• Do not dare not to dare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Religion, Dare

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Grief, Sadness

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

• Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

• Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Christian, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Rumor, World

  "Joyful Christian".

• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Forgiveness, Sublime

• One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Animal, Reality

• Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Order, Suffering

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Believe, People

• We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Heart, Eye

• We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

• How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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