The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen. — 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 have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such… — 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
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — 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
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, 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
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
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
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — 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
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
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
