“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you… — 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… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“if the patient knows that the woman with the absurd hat is a fanatical bridge-player or the man with squeaky boots a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Emotional intensity is in itself no proof of spiritual depth. If we pray in terror we shall pray earnestly; it only proves… — 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
