100+ Best C.S. Lewis Quotes on Love, Friendship and More

Top CS Lewis Quotes

1. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
2. “Courage, dear heart.”
3. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
4. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
5. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
6. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
7. “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
8. “We are what we believe we are.”
9. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
10. “You can make anything by writing.”
11. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
12. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
13. “Love is not affectionate feeling but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
14. “We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
15. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
16. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
17. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
18. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
19. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
20. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

CS Lewis Christmas Quotes

1. “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.”
2. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
3. “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.”
4. “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation.”
5. “The Word became flesh to communicate the glory of God.”
6. “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”
7. “He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed.”
8. “The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap. His hair was like a light.”
9. “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
10. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”
11. “God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
12. “When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it.”
13. “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.”
14. “The house lights were dimmed until the Advent wreath shone against the dark curtains.”
15. “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
16. “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
17. “The Christmas story is a story of hope.”
18. “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
19. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.”
20. “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

CS Lewis Quotes on Love

1. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
2. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
3. “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
4. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”
5. “To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
6. “Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
7. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
8. “The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
9. “Love that leads to marriage is the quest for God in one another.”
10. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
11. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
12. “To love is to be vulnerable.”
13. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
14. “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
15. “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
16. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
17. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
18. “Love is not affectionate feeling but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.”
19. “To love is to be vulnerable.”
20. “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.”

Famous Quotes by CS Lewis

1. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
2. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
3. “You can make anything by writing.”
4. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
5. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
6. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
7. “You are what you believe yourself to be.”
8. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
9. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
10. “Courage, dear heart.”
11. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
12. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
13. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
14. “We are what we believe we are.”
15. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
16. “You can’t know, you can only believe—or not.”
17. “We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
18. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
19. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
20. “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.”

CS Lewis Quotes on Life

1. “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
3. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
4. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
5. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
6. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
7. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
8. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
9. “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
10. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
11. “We are what we believe we are.”
12. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?”
13. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
14. “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
15. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
16. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
17. “Courage, dear heart.”
18. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
19. “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.”
20. “We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”