“We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell.” — 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
“Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” — 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
“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
“When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put… — 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
“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
“I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father… — 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
“I had at least loved Psyche truly. There, if nowhere else, I had the right of it and the gods were in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Light itself was your first love: you paint only as a means of telling about light... Ink and catgut and paint were… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — 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… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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
“I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what… — 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
“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung… — 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
“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love"… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He… — 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
“To anticipate the Enemy’s strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Fellowship of the Ring is like lightning from a clear sky. . . To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous,… — 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… — 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
“But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who… — 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
“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
“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
