“our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I don't see how any degree of faith can exclude the dismay, since Christ's faith did not save Him from dismay in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Belief, in this sense, seems to me to be assent to a proposition which we think so overwhelmingly probable that there is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you've been told them by someone… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“is the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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