Since we do in reality need one another ("it is not good for man to be alone"), then the failure of this need to appear as Need-love in consciousness - in other words, the illusory feeling that it is good for us to be alone - is a Bad spiritual sympt...
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretensions which the hopes and fears of the age render most potent.
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. -An Experiment in Criticism
If you are writing a story, miracles or abnormal events may be bad art, or they may not. If, for example, you are writing an ordinary realistic novel and have got your characters into a hopeless muddle, it would be quite intolerable if you suddenly c...
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 work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled ai...
[B]ut in Narnia your good clothes were never your uncomfortable ones. They knew how to make things that felt beautiful as well as looking beautiful in Narnia; and there was no such thing as starch or flannel or elastic to be found from one end of the...
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the 'gospel' or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the 'gospels', the narratives of Our Lord's life and death, were composed later for the benefit of those who had already accepted the . ...
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
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
I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun - not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.
I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun - not because I can see it, but because by it I can see everything else.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, bo...
