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 we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing. — 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
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. — 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 'All' --quite seriously all---'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will;… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and… — 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
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — 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
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — 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
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 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
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. — 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
