Quotes from CS Lewis
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— CS Lewis
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
— CS Lewis
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
— CS Lewis
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
— CS Lewis
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
— CS Lewis
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
— CS Lewis
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
— CS Lewis
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— CS Lewis
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
— CS Lewis
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
— CS Lewis
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
— CS Lewis