The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby,… — 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
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do… — 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
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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
...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
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — 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
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
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
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and… — 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
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.… — 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
Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same… — 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
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — 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
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a… — 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
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 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
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem… — 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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