“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
“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind, in given circumstances, to move a particular patient at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To anticipate the Enemy’s strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Belief, in this sense, seems to me to be assent to a proposition which we think so overwhelmingly probable that there is… — 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
“Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I’m as good as you is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies. But it has a far deeper value… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour. One” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The fantastic suggestion that he, Curry, might be a bore passed through his mind so swiftly that a second later he had… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We may legitimately hope that among the impulses which arise in minds thus emptied of all ‘rational’ or ‘spiritual’ motives, some will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind… — 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
