“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
“No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the windows turned from mud-colour… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is therefore easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion.… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Never say savor when you only mean taste – one is a holding on the tongue and an intoxication and the other… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless--heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“the fairy tale stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
