“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
“You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.” — 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
“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is like a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My theme is chivalry. I have tried to show that this old tradition is practical and vital. The ideal embodied in Launcelot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God… — 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
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I know that’s how they talk. But if there’s a real war why don’t they do anything? Don’t you see that if… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Christians… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent. This… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your natural life is derived from your parents; that does not mean it will stay there if you do nothing about it.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favourites, people… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“such thoughts had often knocked for entrance, but had always been excluded for the very good reason that if they were once… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away "blindly" so to speak. Christ will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for… — 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
