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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 44

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She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Silly, Magic, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Children, Book, School

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.2, Harper Collins

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

Powerful, Water, Stuff

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

Instruction, Exception

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.88, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Nephew, Bakers, Treasure

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Feet, Giants, Stones

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

Fear, Men, People

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

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

Grief, Giving, Feelings

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

Men, Miracle, Matter

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

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Moving, All Time, Courses

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Inspirational, Religious, Self

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

War, Men, Doctors

You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

Dog, Sex, Children

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Dog, Cat, Animal

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

Names, Matter, Forget

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.51, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

Real, Book, Taken

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Soul, Body, Happens

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Dream, Mean, Men

C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.63, TellerBooks

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Childhood, Wish, Fairy Tale

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Christian, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

Kind, Remember, Longing

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

Men, Thinking, Focus

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Past, Tea, Four

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

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Stars, Men, Order

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Looks, Spontaneous, Ends

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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