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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 37

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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Thinking, Talking, Water

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Wise, Time, Men

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Giving, Thrill, Way

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Reality, Unbearable

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.15, Faber & Faber

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Noble, World, Treasure

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Christian, Religious, Prayer

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

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Wisdom, Individuality, One Day

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

Marriage, Teacher, Men

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Cutting, Errors, Race

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.9, Harper Collins

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

Religious, Men, People

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Reading, Eye, Night

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.141, Cambridge University Press

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

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

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Art, Philosophy, Men

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

Nature, Want Something, Nymphs

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.42, Harper Collins

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Men, Law, Giver

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Book, Years, Good Book

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis”, p.117, Harper Collins

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

Heart, My Heart

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

Real, Justice, Mixtures

What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.

Inspirational, Religious, Needs

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Miracle, Being True, Humans

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Temptation, Hardest, Needed

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

Mind, Disease, Crime

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.325, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

Christian, Jesus, Believe

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

Book, Wind, Long

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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