The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — 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
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — 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
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — 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
