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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 41

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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

Memories, Five Senses, Minorities

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

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

Sea, Roots, Space

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

Children, Book, Reading

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Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

God, Faith, Real

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

Kings, Lying, Light

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Humble, Humility, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Sleep, Men, Thinking

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Inspirational, Book, Reading

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Desire, Ministry, World

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Mad, Choices, Nephew

C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.16, Dramatic Publishing

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Sex, Reconcile

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

Imagine yourself as a living house.

House, Imagine

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

Faith, Inspiration, Mean

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Ivory, People, Dry

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Happiness, Strong, Men

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

Christian, Jesus, Color

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The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Simple, Sound, Realizing

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

Lying, Sea, Land

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

Real, Men, Differences

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Choices, Relation

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Faith, Men, Perfect

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Essentials, Done, Toes

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

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

Country, Believe, Eye

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

Christian, Men, Miracle

C. S. Lewis (2011). “Miracles”, HarperCollins UK

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

Moving, Leaving, Humanity

1936 The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

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