One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — 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
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
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
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times… — 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
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 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
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We… — 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
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
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
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — 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
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
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — 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
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both. — 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
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
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
