Quote

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Events
Story
Christ
History
Stories
Earth
Central
Whole
Event
Thing
Birth

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
C. S. Lewis
Image
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Autumn is really the best of the seasons and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
C. S. Lewis
Image
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
C. S. Lewis
Image
I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.
C. S. Lewis
Image
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, I am what I do.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Things never happen the same way twice.
C. S. Lewis
Image
When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
C. S. Lewis
Image
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
C. S. Lewis
Image
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
C. S. Lewis
Image
What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
C. S. Lewis
Image
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
C. S. Lewis