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
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. — 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
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — 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
Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — 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
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my… — 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
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our… — 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
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — 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
We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead… — 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 of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done,… — 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 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 thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that… — 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 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
