I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers. — 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 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
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
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' — 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
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
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
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and… — 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
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
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
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — 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
