“I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry times are one o'clock.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But it is the main question at the moment: which side one’s on—obscurantism or Order.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind, in given circumstances, to move a particular patient at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But the moment of his consent almost escaped his notice; certainly, there was no struggle, no sense of turning a corner.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first—wanting to be the centre—wanting to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now it is time!" then louder, "Time!"; and then so loud it could have shaken the stars; "TIME." The door flew open.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did ... the Christian, trying to treat every… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive . . . [a]n art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Are not all lifelong friendships born in the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“These two Kings and two Queens governed Narnia well, and long and happy was their reign. At first much of their time… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Eternal may meet us in what is, by our present measurements, a day, or (more likely) a minute or a second;… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages, mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they… — 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. Every victory we seemed… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And all the time the joke is that the word ‘Mine’ in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human… — 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
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The will of Christ no longer limits theirs; it is theirs. All their time, in belonging to Him, belongs also to them,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists - not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“often pointed out that bright mornings brought on wet afternoons, and that you can't expect good times to last.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
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