The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not… — 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
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied… — 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
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — 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
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — 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
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. — 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