The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more… — 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
