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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 27

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I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by

I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.

Real, Drama, Men

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

Christian, Men, Community

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Screwtape Letters, Neighbour

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Sex, Ambition, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Silly, Knees, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.35, Harper Collins

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Christian, Plato, Lying

To love is to be vulnerable.

Love, Godly, Romance

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

Christian, Humility, Pride

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

Attitude, Lying, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.138, HarperCollins UK

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Intellectual, Secret, Listening

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

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

Thinking, Our Love, Subjects

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Wisdom, Lovely, Certain

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.50, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

Teacher, Jesus, Son

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Inspirational, Truth Is, Interruptions

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

Effort, Enemy, Company

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.106, Harper Collins

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Ifs

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

Law, Play, Keys

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, Harper Collins

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

His Love, Ifs

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

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Running, Past, Land

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Enemy, World, Territory

You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.

Morning, Past, Thinking

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

Men, Heaven, Soul

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Men, Church, Christ

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

Christian, Atheist, Mistake

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

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

Kings, Safe, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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