C.S. Lewis Quotes

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.

He (Jesus) produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may 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.

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

He who has God plus many other things has no more than he who has God alone.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing - rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream...

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

...what we call man’s power over nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

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

I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.