“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
“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — 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
“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I… — 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
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“C.S. Lewis in his book The Screwtape Letters in a series of messages from a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To construct plausible and moving ‘other worlds’ you must draw upon the only real ‘other world’ we know, that of the spirit.” — 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
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — 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
“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All extremes except extreme devotion to the Enemy are to be encouraged. Not always, of course, but at this period. Some ages… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — 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
