Quotes from CS Lewis
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
- CS Lewis
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- CS Lewis
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
- CS Lewis
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
- CS Lewis
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
- CS Lewis
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
- CS Lewis
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
- CS Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
- CS Lewis
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
- CS Lewis
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
- CS Lewis
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
- CS Lewis
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
- CS Lewis