An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. — 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
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — 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
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird… — 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
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
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. — 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
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a… — 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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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