If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — 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
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
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
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. — 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
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
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. — 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
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — 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
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — 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
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
To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — 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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