The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — 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 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
No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a… — 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
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
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — 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
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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