God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come &… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. — 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
