The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it. — 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. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled. — 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
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — 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
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us… — 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
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
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
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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — 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
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
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one… — 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
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — 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
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
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were… — 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
We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — 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
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — 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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
