Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the… — 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