3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis 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.’
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis 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.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
