It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — 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
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own… — 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
