C. S. Lewis Quotes About Wisdom

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eye, Dark

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• 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

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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  The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Wisdom, Circles

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eternity, Childishness

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Individuality, One Day

• Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Giving, Forever

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

• What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Prayer, Mean

  "Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1963.

• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

• 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

• Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Lovely, Certain

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.50, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

• If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Atheist, Home

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

• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Children, Men

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

• No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Doubt, Modern

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

• Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Strong, Passion

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