When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. — 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
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — 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
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — 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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — 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
It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller — 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
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. — 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
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. — 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
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last. — 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
