C.S. Lewis · Skopia

Quotes

7

Novel · Religious literature

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 5.4

Novel · Religious literature

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.7

Novel · Religious literature

We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

1944

★ 3.6

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Books

3

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1950★ 6.9

Mere Christianity

1952★ 6.4

The Four Loves

1960★ 5.6