My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. — 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
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the… — 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
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature… — 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
