Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. — 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
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — 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
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who… — 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
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
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
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — 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
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of… — 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 greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually… — 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
No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a… — 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
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
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis — 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
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — 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
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of… — 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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. — 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
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
