C. S. Lewis Things Quotations

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.