A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune… — 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
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ. — 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
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — 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
