We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds.… — 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
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They… — 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
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,… — 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 of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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 thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
