“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To construct plausible and moving ‘other worlds’ you must draw upon the only real ‘other world’ we know, that of the spirit.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Putting on Christ'...is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An important spiritual law is here involved. I have explained that you can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“C.S. Lewis in his book The Screwtape Letters in a series of messages from a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad… — 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
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![“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7cd/c-s-lewis-121_democracy_the-democratic-spirit-or-the-campaign-to_970335.jpg)
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