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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 46

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Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Spiritual, Men, Forever

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Fairy Stories, May, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Am I lost or just less found?

Lost, Found

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

Christian, Men, Order

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

Clever, Believe, Mean

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

Atheist, People, Opiates

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

Believe, Reality, Two

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Law, Ideas, Atheism

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

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Taste, Moments, Goodness

"Selected Literary Essays".

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Christian, Book, Want

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.91, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Years, Practice, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Boys, Mediocrity, Dozen

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Firsts, Put First Things First, First Things First

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Thinking, Lines, Pages

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Baby, Water, Swim

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

Heart, Men, Doors

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

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Inspirational, Conceited, Men

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Screwtape Letters, Amusing

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.39, Harper Collins

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Lord, Situation, Can't Change

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Teacher, Morality, Introducing

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

Judging, Choices, Action

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Running, Long, Infidelity

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

Kindness, Definitions, God Is Love

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.23, Harper Collins

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

Mean, Army, Space

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.2, Harper Collins

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