“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”1
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
“The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God.”
“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.”
“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
“Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?”
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.”
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“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.”
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“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.”
“You cannot make men good by law.”
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
“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.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
403 C.S. Lewis Quotes – ChristianQuotes.info
C.S. Lewis Quotes (Author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)