We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — 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
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — 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
