“Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Tirian, with his head against Jewel's flank, slept as soundly as if he were in his royal bed at Cair Paravel, till… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected… — 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
“El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” — 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
“When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will… — 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
“He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What I have called Appreciative love is no basic element in Affection. It usually needs absence or bereavement to set us praising… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out… — 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
