The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life… — 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
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death. — 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