If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — 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
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — 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
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' — 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
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — 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
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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