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
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — 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
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. — 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
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. — 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
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
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — 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
Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth;… — 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
