“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
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Child,” said the Director, “it is not a question of how you or I look on marriage but how my Masters look… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not believe God created an egalitarian world. I believe the authority of parent over child, husband over wife, learned over… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless… — 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
“It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If people do not believe in permanent marriage, it is perhaps better that they should live together unmarried than that they should… — 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
“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming… — 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
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — 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
