40 quotes by CS Lewis to know your beliefs and opinions

Suffering is God’s megaphone to a deafened world.

The only things we can keep are what we give to God. The ones we keep to ourselves are the ones we will lose for sure.

Friendship is born the moment one person says to another: What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

You are never so old that you can’t win again or that you can’t dream again.

For what you hear and see depends on where you place yourself, as it also depends on who you are.

Son! I’m telling her story, not hers. To each one I only tell the story that belongs to him.

The Son of God became man to make it possible for men to become children of God.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Every time you make a choice you are transforming your essence into something a little different than it was before.

Deprivation is an integral and universal part of our love experience.

Affection accounts for nine-tenths of any solid and lasting happiness in our lives.

The future is something we all reach at the rate of sixty minutes an hour.

We regard God as a pilot regards his parachute; he’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he never has to use it.

I think if we could run without ever getting tired, we would never want to stop. But sometimes there are very special reasons to stop.

That is, I cannot talk about the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me.

But eternity with an evil heart is the perenniality of disgrace.

I thought we were following paths already made, but it seems there aren’t any. Our going makes the way.

The individual’s spiritual health is exactly proportionate to his love for God.

God doesn’t want anything from us. He just wants us.

Hell is the only place outside of heaven where we can escape the dangers of love.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we have no difficulties to overcome.

God’s love for us is a much safer matter to think about than our love for him.

The present is the point where time meets eternity.

There are several things that I would not worry about if I were to live only seventy years, but that I seriously worry about the prospect of eternal life.

Everyone says forgiveness is a wonderful idea until they have something to forgive.

The pain of now is part of the happiness of the future. It’s the deal.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Everything that is not eternal is eternally useless.

When it comes to knowing God, all the initiative depends on Him. If He doesn’t want to reveal Himself, nothing we can do will allow us to find Him.

Let us pray that the human race never leaves the earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

By reading a thousand books, I became a thousand men without ceasing to be myself.

There are better things ahead than anything we left behind.

What do you know about other people’s souls – their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles?

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

Jesus forcibly opened the door that had been closed since the death of the first man. He encountered, faced and defeated the King of Death. Everything is different because He did it.

Never did a bunch of bad eggs make a good omelet.

It is always the beginner who exaggerates.

Forgiveness goes beyond human justice; it is to forgive those things that absolutely cannot be forgiven.

I discovered in myself desires that nothing on this earth can satisfy. The only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

All mortals tend to become what they pretend to be.