Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false… — 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
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
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 people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,… — 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
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.… — 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
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like… — 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
