Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 6
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 5
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 5
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 4
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 4
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 3
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 3
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 3
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 3
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 1
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 1
We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 1
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis British Scholar More C.S. Lewis Quotes 0