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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 48

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You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

Chosen One, Chosen, Christian Friends

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

Men, Different, Literature

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility, Pride, Vanity

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

Lasts, Made

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

Party, Faces, Innocence

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

Mean, Love Is, Our Love

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Stage, Producers, Playwright

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Further up and further in!

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Player, Always Trying, Castles

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

Adventure, Ends, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

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

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

Strong, Real, Voice

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.171, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Christian, Prayer, Miracle

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

Sweet, Thinking, Lakes

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

Monday, Morning, Crowns

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.45, Harper Collins

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

Dog, Beloved, Wander

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

Horse, Riding, Practice Makes Perfect

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

Jesus, Liars, Christianity

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Pleasure

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.119, HarperCollins UK

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Book, Men, Rereading

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Children, Kind, Silliness

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.50, Harper Collins

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Land, Ideas, Return

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

Real, Taken, People

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.

Home, Law, Ideas

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

Fighting, Animal, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “What Christians Believe”, p.11, Harper Collins

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

People, Use, Want

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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