“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
