Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — 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
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