Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and… — 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 real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will… — 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
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
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. — 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
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — 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
