God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as… — 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
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors… — 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
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough,… — 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
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it… — 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