“Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth. Some, as I have admitted, are still hardly recognisable:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists - not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If Christianity only means one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. There has been no lack of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we… — 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
