“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Please," she said, "you're so… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves… — 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
“What people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean ‘Love is God.” — c.s. lewis Copy Share Image
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God...shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He (God) will have us even though we prefer everything else to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.” — 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
“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
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]” — 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
“Are the gods not just?" "Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?” — 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
