C. S. Lewis May Quotations

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.

Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

If you thirst you may drink.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

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