C. S. Lewis Universe Quotations

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.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.