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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 39

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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Art, Holding On, Reason

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

Wise, Prayer, Essence

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

Forever, Unattainable, Consciousness

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Exercise, Thought Provoking, Rebel

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Dream, Wisdom, Love You

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

Christian, Men, Firsts

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Realizing, Enormous, Reader

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

Dark, Blood, Water

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Giving, Comfort, Needs

"The Four Loves". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1960.

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

Thinking, Views, Sanity

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Arguing, Patient, Argument

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

Real, Mean, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.4, Harper Collins

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Children, Stories, Lions

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.150, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Errors, Opposites, Upset

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

Men, Understood

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

Strong, Philosophy, Thinking

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Fun, Thinking, People

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

Mean, Men, Knights

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

Hurt, Heart, Son

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?" "I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid." "Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."

Kids, Thinking, Welcome

"Prince Caspian" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1951.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

Dream, World, Remember

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

Struggle, Home, Cards

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

Memories, Years, Expectations

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

Kings, Husband, Hunters

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.10, Harper Collins

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