Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. — 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
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. — 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
