...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will;… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — 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
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — 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
