Quotes from C. S. Lewis

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

You cannot make men good by law.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

But hatred is best combined with Fear. Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful — horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.