Author: C. S. Lewis

Quotes

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

- C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

- C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

- C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

- C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

- C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

- C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

- C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

- C. S. Lewis

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