The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But Ransom, as time wore on, became aware of another and more spiritual cause for his progressive lightening and exultation of heart.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time. — 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
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By… — 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
