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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Miracles” (1942), p. 29
- Theology
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
- Theology
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Preface to Paradise Lost
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“The Road to Begin Your Life ((27 September 2007))”, 58.
- Theology
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows…then we must starve eternally.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Theology
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Preface
- Theology
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. X: “Heaven”
- Love
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
- Atheism
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Miracles (1947), Ch. 3: “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”
- Science
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- Love