I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — 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
