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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 47

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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Inspirational, Prayer, Literature

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Intellectual, Religion, Slacker

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Truth, Mystery, Wonder

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Facts, Evolution, Improvement

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.

Education, Believe, People

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

Running, Heart, Exercise

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Running, Truth, Law

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

Eye, Numbers, Trying

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

Grief, Writing, Suffering

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

Civilization, Training, Beaten

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.

Believe, Thinking, Two

What do they teach them at these schools?

School, Narnia, Teach

C.S. Lewis (2012). “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.155, Oberon Books

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Wisdom, Strong, Passion

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Life, Can Do, Universe

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

Real, Humble, Ifs

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

Should, Charitable, Expenditures

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

Men, Voice, Giving

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Feelings, Promise, Goes On

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.96, HarperCollins UK

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Christian

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

Jesus, Needs, Accepted

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.102, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Pleasure, Pursuit

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Lying, Serious Things, Truthful

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Screwtape Letters, Eternity, Concerned

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

Forever, Goes On, All Things

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