If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — 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
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people… — 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
“It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — 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
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He… — 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
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — 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
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