“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite ...” — C. S. Lewis Quote

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.