The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — 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
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
