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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 30

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Age, Aging, Incessant

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Libertarian Party, Democracies Have, Government

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Unhappy, Unbearable, Illness

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.54, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Reality, Perfect, Mind

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Book, Reading, Age

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Prayer, Ought, Lays

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Atheist, Night, England

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Giving, Needs, States

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Race, Earth, Praying

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

Christian, Men, Degrees

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Humility, Pride, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Men, Care, Speak

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Atheist, Cutting, Atheism

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

Mistake, Men, Talking

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.32, Faber & Faber

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

Christian, Love You, Men

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Real, Mean, Soul

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

Beach, Kings, Fire

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Heart, Mediocrity, Break

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Wisdom, Philosophy, Goes On

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Compliment, Tragic, Inexorable

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Mystery, Wonder, Consciousness

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

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

Heaven, Choices, Soul

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

Pain, Opportunity, Men

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Feelings, Insecurity, Cheerful

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