Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. — 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
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — 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
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