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30 Inspiring C. S. Lewis Quotes On Integrity, Pride, Failure, Truth

C. S. Lewis Quotes

December 5th, 2017   |   Updated on March 24th, 2022

We all loved that moment when Lucy entered the Narnia world through the old wardrobe. An author used his imaginative sense and created an epic fantasy series that people would love. And that is not all he went to create masterpiece after masterpiece.

Clive Staples Lewis is a famous British writer who wrote 30 books, and some of his well-known books include The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, and more

We have compiled the best C.S. Lewis quotes on Friendship, faith, pain, love, and books. These quotes are highly insightful and will impress you enough to make a fresh start in your life.

1. “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”-C.S. Lewis

 

2. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”-C.S. Lewis

 

3. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-”-C.S. Lewis

 

4. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”-C.S. Lewis

 

5. “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.”-C.S. Lewis

 

6. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”-C.S. Lewis

 

7. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”-C.S. Lewis

 

8. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”-C.S. Lewis

 

9. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”-C.S. Lewis

 

10. “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”-C.S. Lewis

 

11. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”- C.S. Lewis

 

12. “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally “ and often far more€ worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”-C.S. Lewis

 

13. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”-C.S. Lewis

 

14. “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.”-C.S. Lewis

 

15. “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

 

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16. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”-C.S. Lewis

 

17. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”-C.S. Lewis

 

18. “I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” -C.S. Lewis

 

20. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”-C.S. Lewis



21. “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…”-C.S. Lewis

 

22. “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”-C.S. Lewis

 

23. “I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”-C.S. Lewis

 

24. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”-C.S. Lewis

 

25. “You can make anything by writing.”-C.S. Lewis

 

26. “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”-C.S. Lewis

 

27. “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ”-C.S. Lewis

 

28. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”-C.S. Lewis

 

29.  “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”-C.S. Lewis

 

30. “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”-C.S. Lewis

 

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