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
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. — 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
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.… — 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
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
To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's… — 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
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — 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
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — 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
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 pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must… — 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
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — 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
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
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