205 quotes
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
Miracles (1947)
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
A Grief Observed (1961)
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.
Mere Christianity (1952)
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
A Grief Observed (1961)
The worst of all public dangers is the committee of public safety.
A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)
There aren't going to be very many more dinosaurs.
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
There are some things about your own village that you never know until you have been away from it.
Studies in Words (1960)
I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
Mere Christianity (1952)
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
Mere Christianity (1952)
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
The Problem of Pain (1940)