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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 31

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Communication, Writing, Mean

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Elements, Redemption, World

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

Black, Would Be, Done

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

Plato, Book, Greatness

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.217, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Fun, Thinking, People

"Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, ("We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"), 1952.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

Loneliness, Conscious, Born

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

Christian, Jesus, Dying

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Inspirational, Christian, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

Gnats, People, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Passion, Night, Years

You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

Dirty, Moon, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

People, Study, Knows

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

Girl, Children, Hate

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

Men, Knowing, Understanding

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Expression, Typical, Would Be

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

Men, Errors, Age

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Art, Children, Mean

"Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Gains, Disability, Vocation

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Grief, Grieving, Sky

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

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

Grief, Blessed, Reality

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Rainbow, Greek, Privacy

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

Attitude, Humility, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

Moments, Great Divorce

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