The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — 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
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we… — 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
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the… — 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 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
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
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — 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
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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
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
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and… — 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 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
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
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
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
