“[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
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers.… — 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
“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
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of… — 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
“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
“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
“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak… — 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
“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
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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