“We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we are content to go back and become humble plain men obeying tradition, well. If we are ready to climb and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No, Digory. Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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