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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 40

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The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

Hurt, Pain, Men

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

Children, Water, Gone

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Dog, Ends, Treats

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

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

Numbers, Would Be, Needs

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.114, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

War, Love You, Christian Love

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

Mean, Omnipotence, Miracle

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

Moving, Sunshine, Looks

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

Christian, Offering, Advice

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

Fighting, Years, Goes On

"The Horse and His Boy" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1954.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Want, United

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

Home, Men, Circles

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

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Gratitude, Fear, Grateful

1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

Life, Heart, Eye

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Reality, Quality, Way

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Happiness, Mean, Men

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Men, Liberation, Divine Mercy

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Religion, Atheism, Answers

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

Fallen, Creatures, Hard

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Inspirational, Water, Inquiry

We read to know we are not alone.

Reading, Lovely, Knows

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Religious, Religion, Attention

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Art, Character, Divine

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

Children, Paws

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

Character, Eye, Vegetables

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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