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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 11

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Reading, Miracle, Christianity

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

Attention, Infinite, Spares

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

Art, Taken, Mean

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Depression, God, Christian

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

Christ, Offers

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Education, Teacher, Teaching

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Christian, Circles, Earth

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

Hate, Love Is, Anime

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".

Love Is, Men, Long

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Hurt, Heart, Silence

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Love, Inspirational, Sad

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

Meaningful, Future, Past

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Heart, Men, Judging

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Inspirational, Religion, Looks

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Differences, Religion, Making A Difference

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

Laughter, Humble, Blood

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

Men, Worship, Process

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Believe, Religion, Atheism

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

Faith, Godly, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

Motivational, Choices, Different

"Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book III, Chapter 4, "Morality and Psychoanalysis", 1952.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Christian, Inspiration, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

Running, Men, Car

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

Country, Home, Thinking

Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

Christian, Son, Men

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