Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — 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
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
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — 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
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. — 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
