“It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But do not let us go too fast here. The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“but you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward till they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We may legitimately hope that among the impulses which arise in minds thus emptied of all ‘rational’ or ‘spiritual’ motives, some will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is either a warning or an encouragement here for every one of us. If you are a nice person—if virtue comes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
