We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — 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
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — 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
