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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 25

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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Humility, Delight, Lines

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Inspirational, Laughing, Together

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

The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Keys, Doors, Hands

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

Real, Law, Broken

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Inspirational, Life, Christian

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.

Art, Truth, Creativity

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist, Reading, Men

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Inspirational, People, Excuse

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

Often Is, Feelings, Friendly

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Happiness, Joy, Waste

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

Mean, Humility, Conceited

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

I came alive when I started loving you.

Short Love, Loving You, Alive

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Men, Laughing, Honor

"Don't mock Tim Tebow" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2011.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

True Love, Love Is, Lust

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.97, HarperCollins UK

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Love, Christian, Mere

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

Moving, Pride, Doors

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Wisdom, War, People

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

Christian, Prayer, People

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Fighting, Christianity

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Philosophy, Needs, Reason

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

World, This World, Knows

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

Christian, Thinking, Hints

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Religion, Dirt

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

Children, School, Adults

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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