Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own. — 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
I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly… — 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
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily… — 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
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. — 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
