C. S. Lewis Letter Quotations

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.