“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” Clive Staples Lewis MeanUniverse
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” Clive Staples Lewis Important
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” Clive Staples Lewis Lie
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” Clive Staples Lewis MeanWise
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” Clive Staples Lewis Heaven
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” Clive Staples Lewis
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” Clive Staples Lewis God
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” Clive Staples Lewis Good
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” Clive Staples Lewis LovePower
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis War
“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” Clive Staples Lewis Walking
“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” Clive Staples Lewis NaturePower
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” Clive Staples Lewis FutureHate
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” Clive Staples Lewis DoneHistoryTime
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” Clive Staples Lewis
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” Clive Staples Lewis Old
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.” Clive Staples Lewis SexMarriage
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” Clive Staples Lewis LifeTruthWiseReasonImaginationOrderOrganNatural
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” Clive Staples Lewis
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” Clive Staples Lewis Humble
