“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favourites, people… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An important spiritual law is here involved. I have explained that you can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go,’ says the King in Hamlet. Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God,’ said Pascal, ‘instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.’ But not only prayer; whenever we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I must say my prayers today whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must learn my grammar… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still… — 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.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
