The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — 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
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — 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
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.… — 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
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to… — 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
The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool. — 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
