“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If Christianity only means one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. There has been no lack of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists - not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The idea . . . that Christianity brought a new ethical code into the world is a grave error. If it had… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. It is addressed only to penitents, only to those who admit disobedience to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the essentials of Hinduism would, I think, remain unimpaired if you subtracted the miraculous, and the same is almost true of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we are content to go back and become humble plain men obeying tradition, well. If we are ready to climb and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is like a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there… — 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