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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 38

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Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

Real, Support, Political

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

Running, Past, Offering

"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

Jesus, Believe, Different

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

Grief, Cutting, Loss

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Grief, Grieving, Ideas

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Doe, Worship, Assembly

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

Self, Sake, Evident

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Christian, Teacher, Pride

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

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Religion, Chance, Dies

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

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

Heart, Voice, Religion

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

God, Thinking, Ideas

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.102, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

Art, Gnats, Civilization

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Mean, Ideas, Theology

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

Girl, Country, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.88, HarperCollins UK

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Passion, Affliction, Christ

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Evil, Doe, Good Times

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

Wisdom, Children, Men

As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.

Art, Thinking, Imagination

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

Abuse, Weapons, Void

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

Men, Rose, Resurrection

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Prayer, Flames, Doe

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Divorce, Orange, Imagination

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

Atheist, Reading, Men

Freedom always comes with a price.

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