All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this… All
- I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait. Adoption
- The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. Instinct
- Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken… Any
- Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. Dear
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not… God
- Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. Awe
- All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. Alien
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. Common
- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… Admitting
- In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… Breakdown
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. Crank
- The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. Any
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for… All
- We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn. Blessed
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we… Bible
- It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come… Asked
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given… Answers
- Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. Advance
- Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… Bequeathed