Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. — 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
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the… — 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
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant… — 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
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,… — 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
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — 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
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all 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
We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — 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
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret… — 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 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
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
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has… — 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
