The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation… — 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
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — 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
