There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — 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
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — 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
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — 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
