I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — 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
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. — 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
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will;… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of… — 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 wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want… — 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
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
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — 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
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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — 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
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
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
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
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day… — 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
He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — 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 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
