Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough. — 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
