Inspiring C. S. Lewis quotes to live

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

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.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Things never happen the same way twice.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.

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

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.

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.

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.

It is hard to have patience with people who say ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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

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