- Men Without Chests
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be …
- Love is not affectionate feeling
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- Love is Vulnerable
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of …
- C. S. Lewis on Devotional Books
I believe that many who find that ’nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are …
- Lewis on Love of Neighbor
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the …
- C. S. Lewis on Media and Sexuality
It is all a fake, of course; the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make …
- My Happiest Hours
My happiest hours are spent sitting up to the small hours in someone’s college room talking nonsense, poetry, theology, metaphysics over beer, tea and pipes. There’s no …
- C. S. Lewis on Friendship
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I …
- Favorable Conditions to Learn
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
- C. S. Lewis on Doctrinal Books
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await …
- Disagreeability of Beards
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly …
- Sure Mark of an Unliterary Man
The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work.
- No Ordinary People
There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.