“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
“You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.” — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
