War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — 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
