C. S. Lewis Quotes

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

He who listens is beloved of god, he who does not listen is hated by god. [It is] the heart [which] makes of its owner a listener or a non-listener….The fool who does not listen can accomplish nothing at all.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

Nobody is born wise.

He who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Yachty is very wise.

Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!