C. S. Lewis Quotes

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

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

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.