C. S. Lewis

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.

C. S. Lewis

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

C. S. Lewis

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C. S. Lewis

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.

C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

C. S. Lewis

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

C. S. Lewis

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