C. S. Lewis
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Quotes from CS Lewis (Belfast, November 29, 1898 - Oxford, November 22, 1963): Writer, literary scholar, and theologian, probably best known for his works such as The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity
“Nothing is wonderful except the abnormal and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Nothing is wonderful except the abnormal and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
“The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don’t”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don’t”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
“Men of sensibility look up on the night sky with awe: brutal and stupid men do not”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“Men of sensibility look up on the night sky with awe: brutal and stupid men do not”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
"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”
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"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”
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
“If you think you are a poached egg, when you are looking for a piece of toast to suit you, you may be sane, but if you think you are God, there is no chance for you”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“If you think you are a poached egg, when you are looking for a piece of toast to suit you, you may be sane, but if you think you are God, there is no chance for you”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world”
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world”
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
"I do not maintain that God's creation of Nature can be proved as rigorously as God's existence, but it seems to me overwhelmingly probable, so probable that no one who approached the question with an open mind would very seriously entertain any other hypothesis”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"I do not maintain that God's creation of Nature can be proved as rigorously as God's existence, but it seems to me overwhelmingly probable, so probable that no one who approached the question with an open mind would very seriously entertain any other hypothesis”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself”
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself”
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan”
Source: Christian Reflections
Source: Christian Reflections
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan”
Source: Christian Reflections
Source: Christian Reflections
“Though I get no more tired now than I did when I was younger, I take much longer to get un-tired afterwards”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
Source: Letters to an American Lady
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“Though I get no more tired now than I did when I was younger, I take much longer to get un-tired afterwards”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
Source: Letters to an American Lady
"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
“[T]he essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“[T]he essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice"
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice"
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Brooke Fraser and the Auckland Philharmonia perform “C.S. Lewis Song” live at Spark Arena on June 22, 2024
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“C.S. Lewis Song” Live at Spark Arena
YouTube video by Brooke Fraser
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December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Brooke Fraser and the Auckland Philharmonia perform “C.S. Lewis Song” live at Spark Arena on June 22, 2024
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
"Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about 'man's search for God.' To me, as then I was, they might as well have talked about the mouse's search for the cat”
Source: Surprised by Joy
Source: Surprised by Joy
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about 'man's search for God.' To me, as then I was, they might as well have talked about the mouse's search for the cat”
Source: Surprised by Joy
Source: Surprised by Joy
"Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ..."
Source: ‘The Seeing Eye’, Christian Reflections (1967: 150)
Source: ‘The Seeing Eye’, Christian Reflections (1967: 150)
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ..."
Source: ‘The Seeing Eye’, Christian Reflections (1967: 150)
Source: ‘The Seeing Eye’, Christian Reflections (1967: 150)
"Whatever may have been the powers of unfallen man, it appears that those of redeemed Man will be almost unlimited. Christ, re-ascending from His great dive, is bringing up Human Nature with Him. Where He goes, it goes too. It will be made 'like Him’”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"Whatever may have been the powers of unfallen man, it appears that those of redeemed Man will be almost unlimited. Christ, re-ascending from His great dive, is bringing up Human Nature with Him. Where He goes, it goes too. It will be made 'like Him’”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
“‘If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.’ Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? …”
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December 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“‘If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.’ Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? …”
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“For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. [...] Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him”
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. [...] Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him”
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
"When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner”
Source: The Four Loves
Source: The Four Loves
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner”
Source: The Four Loves
Source: The Four Loves