“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”1
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
“The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”
“Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?”
“If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.”
“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”
“The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.”
“Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
“Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.”
“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.”
“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
403 C.S. Lewis Quotes – ChristianQuotes.info
Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis (bibleportal.com)
TOP 25 QUOTES BY C. S. LEWIS (of 2057) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
C. S. Lewis Quotes – Word Counter (word-counter.com)
C.S. Lewis Quotes (Author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) (goodreads.com)