“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.”
C.S. Lewis “God In The Dock” (1970)
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C.S. Lewis “Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis” (2006)
“We do not want merely to see beauty . . . We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
C.S. Lewis “Transposition and Other Addresses” (1949)
“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
C.S. Lewis “The Four Loves” (1960)
“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (1952)
“The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred”
C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (1952)
“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”
C.S. Lewis “The Weight of Glory” (1949)
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (1952)
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (1952)
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
C.S. Lewis “Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis” (2008)
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
C.S. Lewis “Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis” (2006)
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”
C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (1952)
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis “Is Theology Poetry” (1945)