I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be… — 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
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. — 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
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to… — 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. We cannot compete,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some… — 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
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — 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
