“Christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. It is addressed only to penitents, only to those who admit disobedience to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But do not let us go too fast here. The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The idea . . . that Christianity brought a new ethical code into the world is a grave error. If it had… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Supposing you hear a cry for help from a man in danger. You will probably feel two desires - one a desire… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If tribulation is a necessary element in the redemption we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world… — 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
