A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — 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
