C. S. Lewis Quotes About Today

• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

• In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Boys, Thinking

• The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Victory, Goes On, May

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Forever, Today

• Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

  C. S. Lewis

  Talking, Water, House

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Heart, Jewels

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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