Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
