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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 33

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For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Imagination, Causes, Reason

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

Falling In Love, Passion, Love Is

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Lost Love, Love Is, Lack Of Love

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Writing, Description, Delightful

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Kings, Queens, Narnia

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.131, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Advice, Christianity, Importance

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

True Friend, Goal, Gazing

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Gun

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Mean, Self, Training

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

Writing, Mean, People

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Believe, Giving, Safe

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

Forever, Lost, Enjoy

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

Men, Energy, World

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Grief, Healing, Grieving

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Knowing, Individuality, Privilege

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

Thinking, Rescue, Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

World, May, Tricks

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.75, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

Real, Cutting, Events

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.144, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

Trying, Stories, Snooping

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

Morning, Memories, Heart

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

Demon

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Circles, Two, Long

C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Great Divorce”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Important, Christianity, Can Not

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Christian, Atheist, Looks

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Needs, Culture, Way

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