The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and… — 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
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — 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
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — 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
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
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same… — 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
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
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more… — 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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
![“[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/c-s-lewis-2-132_dignity_something-does-not-rise-to-the-dignity-o_1344973.png)
