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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
