Quotes from CS Lewis
The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
- CS Lewis
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- CS Lewis
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
- CS Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
- CS Lewis
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
- CS Lewis
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
- CS Lewis
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- CS Lewis
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
- CS Lewis
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
- CS Lewis
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
- CS Lewis
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
- CS Lewis
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
- CS Lewis