We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — 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
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
Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very;' otherwise, you'll have no words left when… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — 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
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — 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
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