Quotes

“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

“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

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” Clive Staples Lewis

“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

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” Clive Staples Lewis

“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

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” Clive Staples Lewis

“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

“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

“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

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.” Clive Staples Lewis

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” Clive Staples Lewis

“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.” Clive Staples Lewis

“We are what we believe we are.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” Clive Staples Lewis

“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” Clive Staples Lewis

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

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.” Clive Staples Lewis

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

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

“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

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.” Paul McCartney

“Think globally, act locally.” Paul McCartney

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.” Paul McCartney

“So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.” Paul McCartney

“I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.” Paul McCartney