We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether… — 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
We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution… — 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
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing… — 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
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — 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
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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — 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
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
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