“Human will becomes truly creative and truly our own when it is wholly God’s, and this is one of the many senses… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the question of what humanity is to be is going to be decided in the next sixty years.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The word 'human' refers to something more than the bodily form or even the rational mind. It refers also to that community… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience which the Enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste' 'It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir.' 'And yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
