The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you… — 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
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — 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
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — 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
