All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- 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… Atheist
- 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… Animal
- 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,… Admitted
- 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… All
- 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… All
- Total war is the most humane in the long run. Humane
- 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… All
- If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. All
- Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe. Atheist
- A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. Atheist
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. Atheist
- 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. Admitted
- Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. Atheist
- 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… Atheist
- 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,… Adoration
- 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… Another Way
- 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… Biblical
- 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.… Believed
- In worship, God imparts himself to us. God
- 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… Adoration
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them. Behaving
- Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. Characteristic
- Man must endure his going hence. Endure
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the… Bird
- We read to know we are not alone. Alone