Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had… — 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
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There seems no reason for describing as hypocritical the short-lived piety of those whose religion fades away once they have emerged from… — C. S. LEWIS Copy Share Image
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — 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
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