If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — 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
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
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and… — 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
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — 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
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
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed… — 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
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
If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — 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
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
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
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative… — 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
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — 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
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![“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an…” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c1/c-s-lewis-2-132_all-things_it-is-good-that-the-window-should-be-tra_453932.jpg)
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![“You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual…” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18e/c-s-lewis-2-132_can-do_you-will-say-these-are-very-small-sins-b_2964969.jpg)
