Quotes from CS 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.
- CS 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.
- CS Lewis
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
- CS Lewis
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
- CS Lewis
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
- CS Lewis
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
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 and leads to Calvary.
- CS Lewis
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
- CS Lewis
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
- CS Lewis
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- CS Lewis
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
- CS Lewis