I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — 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
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but… — 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
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth;… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. — 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
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has… — 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
