“Human will becomes truly creative and truly our own when it is wholly God’s, and this is one of the many senses… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What do we really know of other people's souls. Of their struggles, dreams, or tempations. For there is only one soul who… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Designed for good [my friend was sputtering and throwing smoke]. The soul was not designed for this, I thought. We were supposed… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we thought we were building up a heaven on earth, if we looked for something that would turn the present world… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every conquest over Nature increases her domain. The stars do not become Nature till we can weigh and measure them: the soul… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Fellowship of the Ring is like lightning from a clear sky. . . To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be… — 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. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste' 'It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir.' 'And yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“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 - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“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 almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share