We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only… — 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
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — 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
