All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It… Animal
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,… Case
- You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. Bad
- All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery. Adultery
- The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from… Adultery
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need… Age
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;… Age
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books… Added
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem… Alive
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a… All
- If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,… Chiefly
- When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. Boy
- True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation. Accompanied
- God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are… All
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… Astonish
- Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter… Achievement
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All… Abolition
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand… Any
- We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride… Assembling
- Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. Compound