“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we are content to go back and become humble plain men obeying tradition, well. If we are ready to climb and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. It is addressed only to penitents, only to those who admit disobedience to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is like a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In Mere Christianity, no less than in his more fantastical works, the Narnia stories and science fiction novels, Lewis betrays a deep… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Christians… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If it is maintained that anything so small as the Earth must, in any event, be too unimportant to merit the love… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either… — 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
