If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — 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
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and… — 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
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
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — 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
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — 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
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come &… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in — 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
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