Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had… — 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
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and… — 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
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
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
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — 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
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
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
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
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you… — 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 think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — 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
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — 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
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“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
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
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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
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
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
![“[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know…” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd5/c-s-lewis-2-132_adam_milton-s-argument-is-a-st-augustine-was_1338657.jpg)
![“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/700/c-s-lewis-2-132_anticipate_when-we-lose-one-blessing-another-is-oft_2230316.jpg)
![“I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/c-s-lewis-2-132_argument_i-wish-i-were-younger-what-inclines-me-n_2372727.png)
