God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. — 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
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself… — 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
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
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
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — 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
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of… — 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
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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