A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. — 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
