If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the… — 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
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — 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
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
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that… — 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
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were… — 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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