“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward … promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The sensualist, I'll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. but the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
