A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying… — 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 first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. — 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
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
