Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but… — 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
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our… — 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
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We… — 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
The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a… — 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
All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — 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
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
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something… — 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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