Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.… — 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 you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as… — 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
![“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an…” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c1/c-s-lewis-2-132_all-things_it-is-good-that-the-window-should-be-tra_453932.jpg)
