Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
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“Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.”
“Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.”
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
“You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.”
Source: The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.”
“The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.”
“Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: Perelandra
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.”
“So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.”
“If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.”
Source: Present Concerns
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: Present Concerns
“The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”