“Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.” — 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
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. — 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
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle — 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 prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I… — 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
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. — 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
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. — 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
God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent… — 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
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
Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has… — 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
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
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
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — 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
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some… — 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
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — 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
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
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. — 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
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
