The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. — 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
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? — 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
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and… — 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
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something… — 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
