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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 43

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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Funny Things, Religion, Bed

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.36, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Goodbye, Book, Night

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

Evil, Spoiled, Goodness

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

Dog, Mean, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Tea should be taken in solitude.

Taken, Solitude, Tea

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

Real, Support, Causes

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Reality, Doe, Add

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Party, Taken, Doubt

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Unattainable, Consciousness, Invisible

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Order, Imagination, Literature

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

Running, Horse, Want

C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Soul, Suffering, Limits

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Memories, Writing, Play

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Serious, Theory, Homosexual

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

Angel, Animal, Men

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.215, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Rewards, Given, Activity

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Wisdom, Humility, Perfect

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Lonely, Men, Ideas

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

Sacrifice, Men, Self

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

Art, Order, Looks

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

My Own

"Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 251, 1953.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Strong, Desire, Mud Puddles

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.

Kings, Stars, Queens

"Fictional character: Aslan". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", 2005.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

Magic

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.67, Harper Collins

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