If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience… — 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
But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now — 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
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — 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
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
