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
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
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
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
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
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
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As… — 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
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
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
[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
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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