All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one… — 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
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
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. — 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
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