All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. Inspirational
- Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. Game
- Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. Everything Except
- Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt… Aching
- It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. Character
- People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. Blush
- To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. Armour
- Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. Aid
- As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' Appetite
- If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. Bring
- You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there. Found
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Conquest
- No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. Doubt
- If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Activity
- When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice… Among
- If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. Eat
- The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. Cheap
- It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. Avarice
- Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. Ask
- If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? Best