C. S. Lewis

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. ”

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ”

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. ”

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. ”

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. ”

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. ”

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ”

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. ”

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. ”

Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. ”