Quotes By Author: c. s. lewis

“What are we born for?””For infinite happiness,” said the Spirit. “You can step out into it at any moment…”

“If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

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

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”

“He’s not safe, but he’s good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)”