Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — 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
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over… — 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
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has… — 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
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
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
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
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He… — 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
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
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives. — 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
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By… — 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
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more… — 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
Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be… — 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
