C. S. Lewis Acts Quotations

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

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

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.