I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

— C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

— C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

— C. S. Lewis

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.

— C. S. Lewis

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

— C. S. Lewis

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

— C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

— C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

— C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

— C. S. Lewis

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

— C. S. Lewis