“You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“who would simply have ignored such a subject out of existence if any modernized booby had been so unfortunate as to raise… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. Actually this quote doesn't sound like C.S.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A good, but unexamined life will be high on duty and not likely to celebrate the odd paradoxes, the ironic coincidences and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“now that the very name "space" seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or one's 'real'… — 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
“Jaweh is clearly not a Nature-God. He does not die and come to life each year as a true Corn-king should. He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That’s true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We expect a solution of the unemployment problem, the cancer problem, the housing problem, the problems of currency, of war, of education.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I imagined life outside narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long… — 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
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I accepted games (quite a number of boys do) as one of the necessary evils of life, comparable to Income Tax or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the allusions were too difficult for Mark, who was quite ignorant of the life of the roads though he had once written… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All stories will come to nothing: all life will turn out in the end to have been a transitory and senseless contortion… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — 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
