We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — 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 more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — 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
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as… — 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
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — 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
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
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — 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
