Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
C. S. Lewis Quotes
GloryPowerWorshipSovereignty 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.
AgingSufferingFrailty How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Imagination I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
TruthImportanceFaith Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
EmotionJoyAuthenticityOpposites Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
RationalityCreativityTruthMeaning Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
TransformationGrowthChangePotential 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.
PrayerAvoidanceEffortHuman Interaction It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
TimeFutureUniversalityInevitability The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
FaithDivisionSubmissionObedience 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.'
FaithChristianityPerspective 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.
Natural LawsHuman PotentialUnderstandingLimitationHigher Principles Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
FailureSuccessPerseveranceAchievement Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
QuestioningDivinityKnowledgeHumilityNonsense Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
LoveInsightResilience This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Objective ValueAuthorityJusticeFreedom A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
InstinctsInner ConflictSelf-ControlDiscernment 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.
FaithSurrenderAdversitySpiritual Growth 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?
ClarityCommunicationPrecisionLanguage 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.
MiraclesTruthPerception 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.
ProgressCorrectionWisdomAdaptabilitySelf-Awareness 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.
PerspectiveAuthenticityHumility 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.
FutureOptimismMoving On Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
FriendshipMeaningQuality Of LifeEssential Needs vs LuxuryExistence Value Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
CourageVirtueTesting PointUnityInterconnectedness Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
HumilityGratitudeTemperancePietySimplicity A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
GodHappinessPeaceFaith God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
TruthSeekingComfortReality vs IllusionHope & Despair 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.
BoredomVulnerabilityMidlife The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
HappinessHuman ConnectionFulfillmentEmotional BondsWell-Being Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
HumanitySpiritualityDualityExistence Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
SacrificeIndividualityLove When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
DesireSpiritualityPurposeTranscendence If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
LiteratureEnrichmentRealityLifeInspiration 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.
ChoiceDecision MakingLife's Journey We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
Self-DescriptionPhysical Appearance I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
MaturityTransitionPersonal GrowthAcceptanceResponsibility 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.
EnjoymentPleasureContentment You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.