“你不是一个有灵魂的身体，而是有身体的灵魂”——路易斯

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

~C. S. Lewis 

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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.

~C. S. Lewis 

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

~C. S. Lewis

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

~C. S. Lewis

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

~C. S. Lewis

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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

― C.S. Lewis

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 “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

― C.S. Lewis

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“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”

― C.S. Lewis

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 “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.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

~C. S. Lewis

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

~C. S. Lewis

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

~C. S. Lewis

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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

~C. S. Lewis

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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

~C. S. Lewis

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

~C. S. Lewis

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

~C. S. Lewis

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

~C. S. Lewis

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

~C. S. Lewis

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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

~C. S. Lewis

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

~C. S. Lewis 

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

~C. S. Lewis 

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

~C. S. Lewis 

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

~C. S. Lewis

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

~C. S. Lewis

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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

― C.S. Lewis

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 “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”

― C.S. Lewis

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 “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

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 “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

― C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

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 “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

― C.S. Lewis

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 “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

― C.S. Lewis

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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

~C. S. Lewis

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We are what we believe we are.

~C. S. Lewis

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

~C. S. Lewis

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

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

~C. S. Lewis

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

~C. S. Lewis

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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

~C. S. Lewis

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

~C. S. Lewis

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

~C. S. Lewis

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

~C. S. Lewis

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

~C. S. Lewis