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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 42

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But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to

But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

Real, Men, Talking

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

Believe, Successful, Doors

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

Teacher, Jesus, Fall

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Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

Males, Female, Might

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Courage, Honesty, Hypocrite

In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Pain, Writing, Interesting

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

Thinking, Feelings, Trying

C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.21, Faber & Faber

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

Real, Angel, Men

Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, in July 1924. "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book edited by W. H. Lewis, p. 97, 1966.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Doe, Knows, Saved

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Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

Devil, Can Not

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

Dream, Morning, Father

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

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Spring, Winter, Sight

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.4, Harper Collins

Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

Blessed, Unique, Men

People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

Block, Grief, People

Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

Dream, Stars, Real

"The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

Humility, Inability, Forget

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.16, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.

Writing, Law, Unity

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Men, Thinking, Sick

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Wise, Reality, Men

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

Humorous, Kids, Boys

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Men, Long, Together

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Sarcastic, Women, Expression

Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Son, Religion, Might

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.96, Harper Collins

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Eels, Pie, Frogs

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.56, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Rhythm, Celestial, Acceleration

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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