C. S. Lewis Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”

“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.”

“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”