C. S. Lewis World Quotations

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.

This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

They Open A Door And Enter A World

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

Prosperity knits a man to the world.