Quotes from C. S. Lewis

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

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.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

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.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

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.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.