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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 28

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Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Fighting, Hoping For Something, Want

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.55, Harper Collins

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

Mean, Doors, Doe

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

Justice, Mercy, Grows

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.326, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

God, Believe, Tomorrow

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Men, Desire, Adults

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Love, Giving, Miracle

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Men

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Faith, Reading, Character

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Thinking, Earth, Screwtape Letters

1942 The Screwtape Letters, preface.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Atheist, Dark, Simple

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Ghost, Guidance, Holy

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

White, Snow, Gone

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Cheating, People, Cards

In Brian Aldiss and Kingsley Amis 'Spectrum IV'

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Special, Dread, Subjects

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.350, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Book, Writing, Made

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Wisdom, Doubt, Modern

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

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

Justice, Charity, Spheres

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

House Of Cards, Order, Trying

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.26, Faber & Faber

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Men, Thinking, Long

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Lying, Bridges, Rivers

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.183, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Giving Up, Real, Self

BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Evil, Increase, Interest

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Simple, Men, Class

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Horse, Kings, Children

"The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

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