The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby,… — 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
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If 'All' --quite seriously all---'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that… — 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
