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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 16

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Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Eye, Ears, Mouths

C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

Running, Should Have, Wind

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Design, Being Free, United

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Demand, Repentance, Description

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.60, HarperCollins UK

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

Looks, Christ, Thrown

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Thinking, Sin, Disobeying

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

Long, Vague, Direct

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Life, Wisdom, Teacher

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Country, Memories, Flower

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Lying, Made, Knows

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Past, Needs, Study

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Philosophical, Heaven, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

Want

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.91, HarperCollins UK

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

Love You, Worship, Should

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

Beautiful, Sight, Ideas

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

First Love, Love Is, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Men, Years, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Mother, Reality, Important

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

Life, Order, Suffering

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

Home, Mean, Sky

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Loneliness, Needs, Conscious

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

Thinking, People, Wish

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Reality, Self, Giving

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Blessed, Stories, Defeat

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Christian, Thinking, Intellectual

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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