Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — 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
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — 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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. — 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
