Quotes from lewis c s

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

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.

Don't bother much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behaviour.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.