“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
“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
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — 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
“You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
