Quotes from CS Lewis
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
- CS Lewis
Things always work according to their nature.
- CS Lewis
And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.
- CS Lewis
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
- CS Lewis
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
- CS Lewis
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
- CS Lewis
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
- CS Lewis
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
- CS Lewis
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
- CS Lewis
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
- CS Lewis
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
- CS Lewis
We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
- CS Lewis