Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — 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
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
When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you… — 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
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
