I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. Lewis
Archives For November 30, 1999
Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it. That, and only that, is forgiveness, and that we can always have from God if we ask for it.
C.S. Lewis, On Forgiveness: The Weight of Glory
I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in.
C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
C.S. Lewis
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C.S. Lewis
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
C.S. Lewis
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 