C. S. Lewis Natural Quotations

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.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.