Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — 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
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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — 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
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some… — 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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