Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Imagination I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
CreativityMeaningRationalityTruth Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
AgingFrailtySuffering How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
ChangeGrowthPotentialTransformation 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.
InsightLoveResilience This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
AdversityFaithSpiritual GrowthSurrender Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
FaithImportanceTruth Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
DivisionFaithObedienceSubmission There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
DivinityHumilityKnowledgeNonsenseQuestioning Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Higher PrinciplesHuman PotentialLimitationNatural LawsUnderstanding Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
AchievementFailurePerseveranceSuccess Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
ClarityCommunicationLanguagePrecision Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
AdaptabilityCorrectionProgressSelf-awarenessWisdom 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.
AuthenticityHumilityPerspective Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
MiraclesPerceptionTruth 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.
DiscernmentInner ConflictInstinctsSelf-Control 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.
AuthenticityEmotionJoyOpposites Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
ChristianityFaithPerspective 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.
FutureInevitabilityTimeUniversality The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
AvoidanceEffortHuman InteractionPrayer It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
GloryPowerSovereigntyWorship 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.