We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become… — 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
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — 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
What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the… — 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
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — 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
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — 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
Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing… — 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
