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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 35

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There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

Christian, Support, Church

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Feet

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

You can make anything by writing.

Writing, Kids, Storytelling

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

Spiritual, Sweet, Reality

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Wisdom, Eternity, Childishness

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

Mirrors, Perfection, Promise

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Men, Thinking, Action

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Color, Sky, Mind

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Race, Silence, Achievement

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

Thinking, Harder

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.96, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Goodness, Divine

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.99, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

Art, Dust, Details

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

Cat, Fire, Doe

It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Names, Dear Ones, Knowing

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

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

Thinking, People, Praying

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

Time, Enemy, Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

Agony, Knowing, Heaven

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Stupidity, Poverty, Humans

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 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.

God, Night, Feelings

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

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Self, Surrender, Easy

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

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

Destiny, Wish, Natural

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

Jesus, Civilization, Inattention

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