C.S. Lewis Quotes

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• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had…
• One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
• You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
• The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have…
• We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
• Total war is the most humane in the long run.
• Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
• If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
• Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
• A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
• I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
• Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
• A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
• The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
• The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
• We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself.…
• In worship, God imparts himself to us.
• Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…

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