Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — 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
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 Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
