To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. — 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
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never… — 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
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
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. — 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
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
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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