“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He raised his head and roared, "Now it is time!" then louder, "Time!"; then so loud that is could have shaken the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“at every moment of every year in our lives Donne’s question ‘What if this present were the world’s last night?’ is equally… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The duty of planning tomorrow's work is today's duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties,… — 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 overwhelming majority of time I spend thinking about myself, pleasing myself, reassuring myself, and when I am done there is nothing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have seen landscapes...which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we've… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you run now, without a moment's rest, you will still be in time to warn King Lune." Shasta's heart fainted at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I had not noticed how the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” — 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… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The assumption which you want him to go on making is so absurd that, if once it is questioned, even we cannot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have been talking of the past (your past and mine) only in order that you may turn from it forever. One… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation is despair:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. That might have… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hush!’ said the Cabby. They all listened. In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like… — 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
