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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring… — 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
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,… — 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
