“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — 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
“We teach them not to notice the different sense of the possessive pronoun .. . Even in the nursery a child can… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But I want her, I must have her, I shall die if I do not get her - false, proud, black-hearted daughter… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If he now failed, this world also would hereafter be redeemed. If he were not the ransom, another would be. Yet nothing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What I have called Appreciative love is no basic element in Affection. It usually needs absence or bereavement to set us praising… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own mind, I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family,… — 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
