It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like… — 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
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
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
Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places… — 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
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. — 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
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. — 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
