“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a Christian duty, as you know, for every-one to be as happy as he can.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Putting on Christ'...is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If on such grounds, or on better ones, we follow the course in which humanity has been led, and become Christians, we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed…" I suppose it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If it is maintained that anything so small as the Earth must, in any event, be too unimportant to merit the love… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In Mere Christianity, no less than in his more fantastical works, the Narnia stories and science fiction novels, Lewis betrays a deep… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Christians… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — 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
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth. Some, as I have admitted, are still hardly recognisable:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him… — 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
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